Talk:Institute for Jewish and Community Research

I don't see why we have this article. I don't really oppose it, but I also don't see why we have it. Could someone please explain to me what this has to do with any part of our mission? Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 05:19, 25 January 2009 (EST)

The page was created when they released a report saying liberals were more likely to be anti-Semitic. - User $\scriptstyle {\sqrt {12}}\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-3)^{-n}(2n+1)^{-1}$ 05:22, 25 January 2009 (EST)

Also, it seems to me that it makes those most ridiculous of equivocations so loved by those who support Israel in an irrational manner: Not supporting Israel is the same thing as being an anti-semite. As far as I understand the mission of RationalWiki, that is, to be a general catalogue of authoritarian modes of thought, as well as general rejection of a rational point of view, the Institute for Jewish and Community Research seems to fit rather well: On one hand, trying to stifle speech contrary to their own beliefs, as well as attempting to silence general debate by assuming anti-semitism and anti-Israelism go hand in hand. There are plenty of cogent, rational reasons to both support Palestinian rights as Israeli legitimacy where these two sides would normally clash, but claiming anti-semitism isn't one of them, at least in this writer's opinion. 69.142.30.188 13:11, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah... I once wrote this, and one (nice) person inquired gently if I was an anti-Semite. I said no, and she accepted my answer. Others are not so tolerant of "different" viewpoints. Note that since I wrote that, the US has spent at least 2 trillion breaking things in the middle east... and I thought my little project would be too expensive (my original cost "estimates" ran around 500 billion, IIRC)! ħuman 22:01, 6 July 2009 (UTC)