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Husband of CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Calls CNN Host Soledad O'Brien 'Anti-Semitic'

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goddamnedfrank3/14/2012 4:59:35 pm PDT

I’m trying to understand Pollak’s attack on Bell. He says that Space Traders is an anti-semetic novel, but in Space Traders it is the Jewish community that mounts the primary opposition to the sale of American blacks to the aliens. In the novel they form protest rallies and vow to hide blacks in what they argue is a new Holocaust. Their movement is eventually crushed by what are presumably Anglo government officials.

Is Pollak saying that it’s an attack on Jews to suggest that they would not sit idly by and watch their fellow citizens sold into slavery to an alien species, to be used for God knows what purpose? Is Pollak saying that it is somehow an insult to suggest that the majority of American Jews have a sense of honor and are guided a fully formed concept of social justice, that they have a self identity formed by the past, one that transcends simply blending in and not making waves? Is Pollak saying that Bell’s suggestion that American Jews aren’t cowards is somehow anti-semetic?

Since Pollak is himself Jewish, and grew up in Skokie, I’m trying to wrap my head around the mindset that could produce such a warped sense of perception. He seems to honestly think that the idea of his people refusing to stand by and passively watch an unfolding atrocity constitutes an attack on them. The absolute upside down world in which this brand of logic might make sense is one where spinelessness is a virtue and to call someone courageous is an insult.