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Sunday, August 01, 2010

Anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

Caroline Glick explains why and how anti-Semites try to hide the fact that they are anti-Semites.
Others claimed that while Stone's statements were inaccurate, there is no evidence that he hates Jews and therefore, his statements weren't bigoted. At any rate, Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times and many others have argued, it would be wrong for Stone to be discredited for his attacks against Jews.

It is difficult to imagine that if someone trafficked in ethnic stereotypes about groups like blacks, and claimed that they wreck US foreign policy to serve their own nefarious aims, Goldstein and the talk-backers would defend him.

But then anti-Jewish bigotry has different rules than other hatreds.

Stone and his defenders are not alone in either their attitude towards Jews or their denial of their attitude towards Jews. Indeed, they are part of a worldwide trend.

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What makes contemporary anti-Semitism unique is its purveyors' great efforts to hide its very existence. Their motivation is clear. Outside the openly genocidal anti-Semitic Muslim world, most anti-Semites are self-described liberals who claim to oppose bigotry. For these people, pretending away their prejudice is the key to their continued claim to enlightenment.

And so the likes of Oliver Stone publish clarifications.

And Cole invents history. And the Europeans blame Jews and Israel and Zionism when Jews inside and outside Israel are assaulted and killed.

And I am sorry I wrote this column.

Because an audience that demands an explanation of why evil is evil is an audience that has already sided with evil.
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1 Comments:

At 6:19 AM, Blogger NormanF said...

The Jews originally did not need an explanation for why they were hated. It does no good to justify to those who show ill will towards them why they should reconsider. Evil does not show mercy to others. Instead of showing it forbearance, it must be confronted and wiped out. The example of the Prophet Samuel must all be followed in acting against it.

 

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