Golden Oldie
Barry Chamish, Holocaust Revisionist? February 26, 2004
Barry Chamish, Holocaust Revisionist?
Anyone who troubles to read my review
of The Last Days of Israel, a 2001 book by Barry
Chamish, will be aware of my contempt for this work. In the review
I call Chamish "Israel's foremost conspiracy theorist,"
disparage his oeuvre as a "barely edited rant with an
alarmist title published by an obscure provincial press,"
fault his "overheated prose, his overstuffed account, and his
overgenerous estimate of himself standing at the crux of
history," and conclude by finding the book full of
"mad-house digressions."
Chamish being no shrinking violet, he returns the
compliments, mostly by accusing me of being a member of the dread
Council on Foreign Relations (true enough) which he and other
bright lights believe runs the world (sure). But to get a feel for
his reasoning, first read my critique
of Thomas L. Friedman's ideas, then read how Chamish transforms
this column into me "bailing out" and apologizing
for Friedman.
Even I never imagined that Chamish would stoop
this low. Maybe now his surprisingly large Israeli following will
see the light and finally stop listening to him. (February 26,
2004)
