Florida, Saturday, August 31,
2002[Jewish
outrage at "Jewish"] 
David Irving
comments: WHAT goes around comes around,
the Americans say: The media have
spent months referring to Muslim
terrorists.
Now a Florida
doctor is arrested in the most
compromising circumstances; he is
already treated most leniently,
and there are loud suggestions
that his problems were not
political or religious at all but
psychological. He can accordingly
expect a mild sentence, if any,
for having concealed thirty
weapons in his house and plotted
to kill Muslims and blow up
mosques ("It was
mosquitoes he was going to
do blow up, not mosques!", we can
hear his lawyer pleading
already).
Now fellow Jews
are outraged that the media did
not conceal that Dr Goldstein was
Jewish.
What a storm in
a teacup. I remember my political
correctness editor George
Stern chiding me, after
reading the draft of
Nuremberg, the Last
Battle, that if a man was
President Franklin D
Roosevelt's lawyer and his
name was Samuel Rosenberg,
it was totally superfluous to
describe him as "Jewish". Of
course.
I managed to
cut the word out of the draft
fifty-nine times after that,
without losing the plot.
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Several complaints about
the use of the term "Jewish' to
describe podiatrist Robert
Goldstein by The Tampa
Tribune and WFLA, News Channel 8, make
up Citizens' Voice this week. That term and other race, religion and
cultural descriptions are accepted
journalism practices used to put stories
in context. Some readers disagree. Goldstein was
arrested Aug. 23 after police said they
found a cache of weapons and detailed
plans to attack Islamic centers in his
home. Carolee Kirshman of Lakeland
e-mailed her dismay: "On last night's news, you had a piece
about the podiatrist who had so many
weapons at his home. I resent the fact
that you called him a Jewish doctor. I
don't think that piece needed to have his
religion brought out. I'm sure that his
name alone signifies his religion. But as
a Jew, I must object to religion being
noted in this case while never before
seeing a news piece where some accused
person was denoted as Catholic or
Baptist. "We Jews are very proud of the fact
that we are rarely accused of an illegal
act and certainly this needn't have been
noted as to his religion.'" Related
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