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harpsicon9/16/2009 6:30:12 pm PDT

re: #893 _RememberTonyC

Much of your historical material is spot on. But in contemporary America, I have seen plenty of anti-semitism on the dem side.

Al Sharpton/Crown Heights (google it)
Jesse Jackson (hymietown)
jimmy carter
President Obama’s preacher of 20 years
james aboureszk

for starters …

It used to be utterly predictable that anti-Semitism was a right-wing thing, as LVQ points out, and pretty exclusively at that. But today that’s not so clear at all. To your list one could add all the politicians in Harlem than demonize(d) Jews as economic oppressors in pretty ugly terms, and also the huge amount of stuff on college campuses that claims to be anti-Israel and not anti-Semitic, a claim that often doesn’t hold up when closely examined. Being “for” the Palestinians seems practically a duty for “progressives” on campus, and even my liberal friends always have some fault to find with the Israelis, which never ceases to amaze me, as they give the Palestinians a pass on the latest outrage. But we’ve seen that on LGF for years.

And of course there are the “progressive” people in Europe whose anti-Israel stance so often reeks of recycled anti-Semitism, complete with boycotts of Israeli scientists, academics, artists, and of course products. The person in Sweden who asked why there couldn’t be some sort of mark so that he could tell if the product was produced by Jews… Maybe a yellow Star of David…