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Danny Postel


Danny Postel Journalist, critic, and curator of intellectual conversations, DANNY POSTEL edits the international net-journal openDemocracy. Postel has covered international politics, culture, and intellectual currents for a variety of publications, including The American Prospect, The Nation, and The Washington Post

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Posted on :February 10 2008

Key figures in the Israel lobbies support a terrorist group that has fired on US troops Here you have virtually everything the Right claims to oppose all rolled into one: Islamism, Marxism, terrorism, and Saddam. Naturally, then, neoconservatives would utterly deplore the MEK and everything it stands for, right? The MEK would in fact make an ideal target for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and Terrorism Awareness efforts, no?



Posted on :February 14 2007

It appears not to have occurred to Boot, or to the Mujahedin Khalq’s other conservative supporters, to find out what Iran’s human rights activists and democratic dissidents think of this “cult.” Not surprisingly, the MEK is held in near-universal disdain by those dissidents, precisely because it is a cult, a terrorist body and Stalinist in ideology—that is, undemocratic to the core. Either this contradiction hasn’t occurred to Boot or, worse, it simply doesn’t matter to him.