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| The New Anti-Semitism |
| 2006-09-28 |
| Victor Davis Hanson We're accustomed to associating hatred of Jews with the ridiculed Neanderthal Right of those in sheets and jackboots. But this new venom, at least in its Western form, is mostly a leftwing, and often an academic, enterprise. It's also far more insidious, given the left's moral pretensions and its influence in the prestigious media and universities. We see the unfortunate results in frequent anti-Israeli demonstrations on campuses that conflate Israel with Nazis, while the media have published fraudulent pictures and slanted events in southern Lebanon. The result is that the world's politicians and media are talking seriously with those who not merely want back the West Bank, but rather want an end to Israel altogether and everyone inside it. |
| Posted by:SR-71 |
| #4 Nothing new about it Dr Hanson |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-28 22:55 |
| #3 How "new" is it though, really? Devotion to any religion (except for maybe Islam) is seen by the left as a threat to their ultimate goal of the transnational collectivist state. It took very little for the generation-old bigotry towards devout Christians that exists on campus and in the infotainment industry to be nudged into being anti-semitism as well. In a sense, it's just a different flavor of a poison that's been here for decades. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2006-09-28 17:35 |
| #2 Pierre André Taguieff, a french scholar, has written much about this new brand of antisemitism, some of it available in english. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-28 12:01 |
| #1 The "socially acceptable" prejudice. |
| Posted by: J.D. Lux 2006-09-28 10:54 |