Some good old-fashioned right-wing anti-Semitism: Just a blast from the past for those of us who remember the anti-Semitism of the right. The Texas legislature has the kind I remember from my childhood: “Religious” Christians who want to make sure that only their kind make the rules.
“We elected a house with Christian, conservative values,” SREC member John Cook wrote Tuesday morning to other SREC members. “We now want a true Christian, conservative running it. This is not about Straus, this is about getting what the people want.”
Yep, that’s what I remember hearing growing up and listening to the holy rollers on TV. That, and being told on a regular basis that I was going to burn in hell. (H/T: Wild nut.)
Speaking of Helen Thomas anti-Semites: Helen Thomas is back with a vengeance. Michael Totten refutes her lies. I may have a post or three about her coming down the pipe. I promise no pictures; I’m starting to have nightmares about that face.
What media bias? You know what’s missing from this New York Times report on Syria smuggling weapons to Hizbollah? Any mention of violating UN Security Council resolutions. Huh. Go figure. I guess UNSCR 1701 isn’t very important, since it just covers the arming of Hezbollah.
No hummus boycott for you: Princeton students voted down a different kind of boycott. The pro-Palestinian group wanted an alternative hummus offered, because Sabra’s hummus is too Israeli or something. This may seem like a really minor distinction to some, but it’s great that the effort failed. It’s a new twist in the BDS movement, and it failed.
Some good news from my alma mater! Now I can feel good about eating hummus during Reunions.
My family and I make special efforts to support any company that is ‘targeted’ by BDS types. And in doing so we have found that
there are a huge number of Israeli firms with goods for sale here in the USA. They make wonderful products.
My wife thinks her Naot sandals are better than Birkenstocks.
I just love the taste of Osem brand Israeli coucous.
I pay careful attention to any new BDS efforts as I can learn new products to try. And now we all feel great knowing that both Sabra and Tribe brands are Israeli owned. Important note: pine nut with olive oil hummus is simply the very BEST!
What amazes me about the brouhaha down in Tex-ass is how brazen and self-efficacious those right wing-nuts can be. They’re right and don’t dare criticize them or you’ll be branded a socialist or communist or worse, (an NPR supporter).