Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Alana Price http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 00:52:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How to avoid real dialog on Israel/Palestine: A response to Mike Lumish http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-avoid-real-dialog-on-israelpalestine-a-response-to-mike-lumish/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-avoid-real-dialog-on-israelpalestine-a-response-to-mike-lumish/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:17:54 +0000 Alana Price http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101246 Mike Lumish’s recent blog post, “Rabbi Michael Lerner promotes an anti-Semite,” epitomizes one of the most troubling dynamics within discourse on Israel/Palestine today: the use of sensationalistic, ad hominem attacks to silence those who offer political critiques of Israeli government policies, rather than addressing the substance of the critiques themselves. I was deeply saddened to [...]

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