The Dissection of a Lie – Harper’s Tale of Deceit and Deception
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The Journey to Golgotha as Tanya Gold Walks‘Among Britain’s Anti-Semites’
It was an off the cuff remark from Jackie Walker, the Black-Jewish activist who was suspended from the Labour Party for ‘anti-Semitism,’ that first alerted me to Tanya Gold. Gold was working on a story on Britain’s Jewish Anti-Zionists forHarper’s Magazine and she wanted to interview me.
I was vaguely aware of Harper’s. It has a radical tradition. Itpublished Seymour Hersh’s exposure of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. It lambasted the American invasion of Iraq. It has also published some relatively insightful articles on Palestine and Israel, especially from Bernard Avishai. Perhaps it was this reputation, more than anything else, which caught me off my guard.
On reflection, especially when it comes to Isr...