http://pacificaforum.org/palestinethinktank-masspsychology.html

Palestine Think Tank seems to have taken an extended break, and has been replaced by http://wewritewhatwelike.com.

I've posted the articles I wrote on that site on this site. My first one was the original leaflet "The Mass Psychology of Anti-Fascism", which is a much milder critique of anti-fascism's affinity with Zionism than the pamphlet of the same name which I produced later that year: http://pacificaforum.org/mass.

Though it was milder, it provoked a harsh response from some anti-fascists. The best rebuttal of these responses, and my favorite comment of all time, from a very rational Romanian (I'm guessing) whose  grasp of courtesy, English and logic are stronger than anyone else in the discussion. It's in

http://pacificaforum.org/palestinethinktank-masspsychology.html

and it's comment no. nine:

   Ioana on July 27th, 2009:

Please excuse me for interfering. I’m not American, I’m East European and the crimes of communism appear to me big enough and at the same time awfully underrated. One doesn’t have to be ‘defending fascism’ in order to observe the following: that very little people know about the Dresden bombardments, about the behavior of the Red Army soldiers in the countries they ‘liberated’ during and after WWII, about the prisons and work camps in Russia, Romania, and so on; on the contrary, almost everybody knows about the Holocaust. Under these conditions discussing such a sensible matter as the Holocaust obviously means ‘minimizing’ it, as it has already acquired some incommensurate dimensions. The top argument for keeping anti-Zionist and anti-fascist movements together is that Israel itself be a fascist state. I don’t agree. I don’t think either communism, in its 20th century imperialist form, or fascism may occur again; we must therefore remember them, not fear them. What Israel is doing in Palestine is horrible, but is different. OK, if we want to thrust the term “fascism” to the Israelis’ face, that’s one thing, but we do this as a media strategy, as it is more efficient than the sheer presentation of the facts. On the whole, I think that this re-using of old concepts has more drawbacks than advantages. It keeps polarizing and de-contextualizing. As Mr. Knott says, no sooner than “anti-fascism” became a psychology, it started making its own victims. Why did Germany stay silent during the Israeli offensive in January? – because of its guilt trauma, still unhealed after sixty years. The Western countries were passive and silent along several crimes in history, still they proclaim only one of them – the Holocaust. Maybe we should inquire how much of the occidental reality today has been been shaped by the anti-fascist motivated support of Zionism.