Comments on: Re:Livingstone renews anti-Jewish slurs

By: admin

admin — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:53:40 +0000

David Parsons, we should also point out that your argument is a non sequitur. It has the following form:

— A certain person (person A) has a history of making comments of a certain type (type 1).
— Person A has made a certain comment (comment α).
— Ergo, comment α is an example of comments of type 1.

By your logic, since I (person A) have a history of making comments in Spanish (comments of type 1), then any comment that I make now (comment α), is necessarily in Spanish (comment α is an example of type 1). Since this is nonsensical and demonstrably false, your argument is falacious.

In simpler terms, your accusation of previous ‘anti-Semitic’ comments, as well as being libellous and not backed up by any attempt to provide proof, is utterly irrelevant to what is discussed in this article.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:52:24 +0000

I am not aware of any past ‘anti-Semitic’ comments made by Ken Livingstone. I believe that if you had evidence of such a thing, you would have provided quotations and references.

I can only presume that you are referring to Livingstone’s clash with the Evening Standard. We plan to produce an article analysing that event also.

By: David Parsons

David Parsons — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:03:41 +0000

It is quite unusual for a such a fan of “reason” to omit any mention of Livingstone’s past anti-Semitic remarks in your criticism of our article. These stories were not written in a vaccuum nor are they “hideously biased”, but based on the guy’s well-established public track record of denigrating Jews. Did you miss the whole story of him being disciplined for this? Throw that in and it all stands to REASON!
David Parsons
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem