re: #367 Bob Levin

The anti-Semitism on the right, while it still exists, is tempered by two things. One, that the left is so anti—-well, this is another part of the PLO’s image remake, to distinguish anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism. The UN helped this greatly, passing a resolution that Zionism is a form of racism. This little linguistic trick unleashed the torrent of Jew hatred, because now it’s not racism to hate Jews, since one is hating Israel. Anyway, since part of the right mindset is to be anti-left, whatever the left celebrates, the right abhors. The other factor tempering the Antisemitism of the right is the NeoCons, many Jews formerly of the left, who decided that free markets are in fact effective, that the US has been a force for good in the world, and have argued these positions quite eloquently. Nevertheless, as NeoCons have fallen into some disfavor, the old right is making noise, and well, same old leopard.

But the bottom line is that the PLO raced to the top of hill when it came to defining themselves as oppressed victims. Magic words.

Gee, 6 million killed put, and the Jews only got to be the oppressed victims until 1967. One would think all those bus and pizza shop bombings would have gotten them back on the victim list, but no deal. I remember a very old song on “National Brotherhood Week” which went something like:

Oh, the Black people hate the white people
And the white people hate the black people
The poor people hate the rich people
And the rich people hate the poor people
The Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Protestants hate the Catholics
Etc….
And everybody hates the Jews!