Where to Draw the Line?
Charles Johnson
Mon Sep 30, 2002 at 2:57 pm PDT • Views: 158
Cathy Young makes some excellent points in this article about where to draw the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism.
…ultimately, motives matter less than consequences. ”Traditional” anti-Semitism, too, often involved motives other than simple hostility toward Jews as Jews - including anticapitalism, since the Jews were seen as the epitome of the money-grubbing bourgeoisie. For whatever reason, extremist anti-Israeli rhetoric today has become, all too often, a vehicle for the kind of Jew-bashing that one might have hoped was extinct in the civilized world.
Frank says: