Kyle-Anne Shiver over at The American Thinker has a must-read article on “Hating the Jews.” The world’s oldest group hatred, it has several possible explanations. None of which stand up to objective scrutiny.
There is one ostensible reason that has the ring of truth to it. And it’s [...]
Archive for the ‘anti-Semitism’ Category
Hating God
Posted in anti-Semitism on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fault lines
Posted in Israel, anti-Semitism on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fools, well-meaning and otherwise, usually insist that we in the West be more tolerant of Islamic terrorists. The worst among them will insist that terrorist groups such as Hamas are not really to blame, it’s always someone else’s fault. Usually the Jews and Americans, in some combination.
The [...]
“enough to induce vomiting”
Posted in anti-Semitism on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kudos and thanks to Bill Donahue and the Catholic League on their disgust at liberal “Christian” groups entertaining the anti-Semitic thug who is president of Iran. From their news release, this is worth noting:
“To appease someone like Ahmadinejad is sickening, but for it to be done in the name of Christianity is enough [...]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Posted in Idiotarians, anti-Semitism on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t need to translate the title for any readers who have served, or who’ve hung around those who’ve served in the military. For the rest of you, it simply wouldn’t be printable in a family blog such as this. Just know that this is the normal expletive heard when something comes across [...]
Mad Mo’ part two
Posted in Iran, anti-Semitism on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To anyone who thinks I’m a tad unfair to Mad Mo’, consider a sample from Mad Mo’s repertoire:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has openly called for Israel to be wiped off the map — AlJazeera
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as “a myth” — CNN
Ahmadinejad: Be assured that the US and Israel [...]
Quid custodiet ipsos custodes?
Posted in Iran, United Nations, anti-Semitism on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those whose Latin is a little rusty, the title is “Who shall watch the watchers?” We’ve got one of those moments at that intrepid (not) ever-vigilant (not) watchdog (not), the United Nations.
The latest obscenity? Having Iran assist in the next UN-sponsored “racism” confab. Iran, whose government is one of the foremost [...]
It’s all Israel’s fault
Posted in War and Peace, anti-Semitism on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I happened to watch a small segment on MSNBC (new motto: “one month Imus-free and counting”) with one of their analysts, Pat Buchanan. The subject was the usual, the war in Iraq, and the host (Joe somebody or other) was doing his partisan best to get Pitchfork Pat to blame everything on the president.
Buchanan rose [...]
"The Judaization of Jerusalem"
Posted in anti-Semitism on February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Now there’s an odd phrase. Being old-fashioned, I always thought that Jerusalem started as a “Jewish” city: The City of David. As in King David. As in the unifier of Israel and Judah, around 1000 BCE. Jerusalem is where David’s son Solomon built the first temple. For this reason [...]
"the rest of mankind as well"
Posted in anti-Semitism on February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Richard Cohen. One of my favorite liberal columnists. While I usually disagree with him on political and philosophical grounds, every now and again he comes up with something right. No, not right as in conservative; but as in correct, even though it grates to admit it.
In his column today he reminds [...]
Not just another "human tragedy"
Posted in Holocaust, United Nations, anti-Semitism on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The recent passage by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution that condemns Holocaust denial was interesting, and useless. Interesting insofar as the UN’s worthies felt it necessary to delve into the subject at all (Iran, of course); useless in the same way the the entire United Nations is useless. Or worse [...]
"too fine to be perceptible"
Posted in Christianity, anti-Semitism on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
David Pryce-Jones now has a blog at NRO. It is well worth the time. Today’s entry concerns the just-departed Abbé Pierre, an acclaimed holy man of the Christian persuasion.
Perhaps he was holy, that is. As is sometimes the case, what you see isn’t all of what you get. in [...]
Pat Buchanan, you’ve got a friend…
Posted in Iran, Israel, anti-Semitism on January 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…in William Pfaff, who is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. What they share is an apparent fear and hatred of that sinister “Jewish lobby” (or, as Pitchfork Pat used to say, Israel’s “amen corner”) and, naturally, the Zionist Entity. Although neither Buchanan, nor Pfaff, so far as I know, go so [...]
"most abhorrent"?
Posted in Arabs, Israel, anti-Semitism on January 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First, let me say that, although I think he is an idiot of the first water, I pray for Jimmy Carter. Pray that he will read the Scriptures he seems to have forgotten in his very public persona of piety.
Nice alliteration, there, Jack, now get to the point. The point is that I [...]
Just shut up, Rowan
Posted in Christianity, Idiotarians, anti-Semitism on December 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Anglican Communion is doddering on its last legs, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in America, the Episcopal Church is losing members and parishes due to its steady leftward drift. In England, the putative home of the Anglican Communion, they can rent out most churches for Sunday bazaars for the few [...]
Words fail
Posted in Iran, anti-Semitism on December 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There is an astonishing picture from the Holocaust-denial conferance taking place in Tehran in today’s WaPo. The picture shows an orthodox rabbi embracing Iranian anti-Semite-in-Chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the accompanying story is dismaying. To say the least.
The short version? Some ultra-Orthodox Jews, believe that the modern state of Israel is an abomination unto the Lord, [...]
“the Zionist regime soon be wiped out”
Posted in Iran, Israel, anti-Semitism on December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Thought experiment: What do you suppose might happen if the prime minister of Israel (or the defense minister, or foreign minister, or, virtually any member of the government) announced that “the Arab regime of —- will soon be wiped out”? Assuming that the person making the announcement wasn’t whisked off straightaway to a mental asylum, [...]
The Untied Nations
Posted in Israel, anti-Semitism on December 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A banner day at the Untied (not a typo) Nations: six resolutions that could, with charity, be called anti-Israeli. What they are is Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole absurd, resolutions endorsed by 150 or so “nations,” many of which if not most have lower living standards than might be found in a public toilet in Tijuana.
The basic story of [...]
Welcome to the desert of the real
Posted in anti-Semitism on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This was one of the tag lines from the original (and, by far best) of the Matrix Trilogy. It’s from the scene where Morpheus shows Neo what reality is, in actuality. The real real, in other words.
Jews, especially those of the liberal political persuasion, appear to need a similar demonstration. Some of my landsmen fret [...]
John Calvin and the Jews
Posted in Christianity, anti-Semitism on November 13, 2006 | 7 Comments »
An article by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the Jerusalem Post should be read by both Jews and Christians. Especially by those Jews who see a Christian conspiracy to forcibly convert them in every gesture of friendship.
Rabbi Boteach’s thesis is quite simple, really: Some Christians, evangelicals in particular, are true friends of Israel and [...]
Is he good for the Jews?
Posted in Politics, anti-Semitism on November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
One of the toughest things to do is to support a candidate for high office who is an anti-Semite. Except when that candidate is the one who will be a better proponent of countering the Islamic threat to Americans, Jewish and otherwise.
The title is a riff on the famously infamous arguments I heard growing up: [...]
Don’t cry for me, Rafsanjani
Posted in Iran, Terrorism, anti-Semitism on October 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It is interesting that Argentina, of all nations, has decided to attempt to bring some Iranians to justice for their role in a terrorist attack. From the AP story (via Washington Post):
Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 [...]
Free speech, Irish style
Posted in anti-Semitism on October 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Well, looks as if the English were on to something, keeping the Irish down. It turns out that anti-Semitism is still alive and well in the Dear Ould Sod.
Growing up in the Bronx, the Irish priests would routinely blame the Jews alive at that time in New York for the betrayal and [...]
la belle France
Posted in Islam, anti-Semitism on October 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Well, you could say that France’s troubles with its Muslim masses are its own fault, and that they deserve everything they get. But France used to be an important nation, and, as much as we anglophiles might like to deny it, there remains a strong French influence in North America.
France is being invaded, albeit [...]
The Holocaust’s Arab Heroes
Posted in Arabs, anti-Semitism on October 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is the title of an interesting article that’s been given a chunk of prime Sunday media real estate on the front page of the Washington Post’s Outlook section.
The article serves at least one useful purpose: it reminds readers that the Arab world is in denial that the Holocaust even took place. [...]
Arab reality
Posted in anti-Semitism on October 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The headline would be amusing if it weren’t deadly: “Reality Confirms Authenticity of Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” This is from what passes for scholarship in the Arab world, which at least used to have pretensions of scholarship, if only by copying from the Greeks and Indians.
The MEMRI translation of the new [...]
Just plain anti-Semitism
Posted in anti-Semitism on September 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You probably did not realize that it was an “unlawful discriminatory practice” to not work on the sabbath. But then, you probably haven’t been keeping up with the racialist panderers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hmm. Shouldn’t they change that name? Sounds kind of dated to me…
Well, the NAACP worthies [...]
"The new anti-Semitism"
Posted in anti-Semitism on September 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is the essence of Victor Davis Hanson’s essay at Jewish World Review, “The new anti-Semitism.” VDH’s central thesis is that “radical Islam’s hatred of Jews is becoming normalized.”
It has become routine to blame Israel, and its perceived puppet master, the United States, for every single thing wrong with the Muslim world. [...]
Arab culture
Posted in Arabs, anti-Semitism on September 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a nice survey of life in the new Arab culture, as represented by the booming little dictatorship of Dubai. Titled “Las Vegas in the Arabian Desert,” the der Spiegel piece is also subtitled “Osama’s nightmare.”
Dubai is, basically, a place for wealthy Euros and Arabs to unwind, to waste money, and to engage in whatever [...]
And while we’re on the subject of George Allen…
Posted in Politics, anti-Semitism on September 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There is some evidence that George Allen, junior senator from Virginia, is at least technically a Jew. That is, he was born of a Jewish mother. At least that is the thesis of this article from the Forward:
Though Etty Allen [George Allen's mother] seems not to have dwelled on it during her [...]
In denial
Posted in Politics, anti-Semitism on September 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There is some evidence that George Allen, junior senator from Virginia, is at least technically a Jew. That is, he was born of a Jewish mother. At least that is the thesis of this article from the Forward:
Though Etty Allen [George Allen's mother] seems not to have dwelled on it during her years in the [...]
