Providing yet more evidence that (with all due respect) Ariel Sharon's head is probing a region where the sun don't shine, the Israeli PM yesterday quoted from the now widely-exposed hoax "A Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend" in his speech at the Knesset Special Session Marking the Struggle Against Anti-Semitism. (Via IMRA)
. . . As early as 1967, in "A Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend", Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that anti-Zionism is no less than disguised anti-Semitism.
I quote: "The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly
a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the antisemite must constantly
seek new forms and forums for his poison. He does not hate the Jews, he is
just 'anti-Zionist'! My friend. when people criticize Zionism, they mean
Jews - make no mistake about it."
Oy. While many people, including me, have at some point been taken in by this attempt to attribute to Dr. King words that he apparently never wrote (or spoke), one would hope that the Prime Minister of Israel could rely upon his speech writing staff for better fact checking. How embarassing!
