re: #62 The Ghost of a Flea

As is lightly touched on in the Pando article, it used to be that Israel was seen as a hotbed of dangerous leftism.

This dovetailed with the idea the FDR’s cabinet (and thus his WWII decisions) were leftist Jews, and that support of both the New Deal and the support for Israel stemmed from the latter. Slightly deeper down the same crazy path you find the people that think the whole US entry into WWII was a put-up job by internationalists (who were also Jews).

The only thing that tamps down rightist antisemitism these days is the nickel-plated philo-semitism of Rapture-ready “Christians”…which is actually just a cordial form of anti-Semitism, since it postulates that Jews (Israeli or not) are deserving of divine punishment and/or not really the Chosen People.

Yep. The right will never admit it of course but a lot of their attacks on FDR and the New Deal and FDR’s foreign policy were rooted in Anti-Semitism. And you’re absolutely right about the right today when it comes to Jews and Zionism. It’s not based out of a real genuine respect or support for the Israeli people. It’s this rapture fantasy. If their scripture said otherwise, they’d be openly hostile to Jews.