At National Review, David Frum takes apart the article by professor Tony Judt that argues for the destruction of Israel: Genocidal Liberalism.

There has been much anguish over whether to describe the new European anti-Zionism as “anti-semitism.” Judt, for one, evinces no animus against Jews as individuals or as a community. Indeed, he reports on the rise of anti-semitism in Europe in tones of sorrow – even as he makes clear that he believes that the Jews have brought this scourge upon themselves. “Today, non-Israeli Jews feel themselves once again exposed to criticism and vulnerable to attack for things they didn’t do. But this time it is a Jewish state, not a Christian one, which is holding them hostage for its own actions.” His intentions are high, his conscience is clear, he hates nobody. His solution, however, is one that would expose millions of Jews – and not just those living in the Middle East – to persecution, expropriation, political oppression, exile, and murder. We cannot describe this outlook as anti-semitism. We need some new term. Here’s my nomination: genocidal liberalism.

I wrote about the Judt article last week in this entry, after it was published by the reliably anti-Israel LA Times.

UPDATE: Melanie Phillips also has a strong entry about Judt’s essay at her blog, titled Loathsome.

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