It was a busy day today, and I found other things to do than post or read blogs or much of the news. But I caught up tonight, and when my head comes back down off the ceiling, I will probably tackle John Mearsheimer’s speech about “righteous Jews” vs. “Afrikaner Jews.” But it does prove one of my points on Jew-haters: They constantly, constantly, CONSTANTLY steal the language of Jews and try to redefine the terminology—e.g., Arabs are Semites too, so anti-Semitism can’t be used to describe Jew-hating Arabs, the “right of return” v. the Law of Return.
Oh, wait. Mearsheimer isn’t a Jew-hater. He’s a realist. I forgot. The Israel Lobby wasn’t an anti-Semitic screed. It was a realist book on America’s Israel policy, and the Jews who run it.
Looks like you give a Jew-hater enough rope, and he will gladly show you his anti-Semitism.
Noah Pollack’s email to Glenn Reynolds hits the nail on the head about the wrongness of Mearsheimer’s list:
Imagine, as a thought experiment, if a white American professor gave a speech to an organization in Washington and listed, by name, “good blacks†and “bad blacks†— and added that the bad blacks aren’t just wrong, but are blindly loyal to a foreign country. That professor would be out of a job in about five minutes. Mearsheimer will get away with this.
Noah, come on. You’re Jewish. You know the rules: It is always open season on Jews. The pretend golden era immediately following the Holocaust lasted about five minutes.
Say, John Mearsheimer: I’m sending the Yourish.com mantra your way tonight. Say it with me, folks: Anti-Semites of the world, just die already.
Curiously enough, Meryl, for many years a number of Irish-Americans openly carried on activities aimed at undermining the domestic policy of a close ally (well, until the current administration they were close allies; now our government sees them as just another country) and they did this with, inter alia, the overt and enthusiastic support of a prominent US senator, Ted Kennedy.
Perhaps I missed something but I don’t recall anyone saying that the Irish-Americans were disloyal, much less writing books about it.I wonder why.