Jennifer Rubin answers:
…let’s be clear: ranting about Jewish control of the U.S. has been largely the role of the Left as of late. It doesn’t make good New York Times copy to point out that the carping about the Jewish Lobby comes from Harvard professors and Leftwing bloggers. It wasn’t Rush Limbaugh or Fox commentators who said during the campaign that John McCain “surrounded himself with, and [was] funded by Jewish neoconservatives”; such rhetoric came from “respectable” Left and Center-Left publications. Do I think those people are responsible for the Holocaust Museum shooting? No. But the heart of this issue is whether there are those who slowly, bit by bit, make anti-Semitism more acceptable and, therefore, more popular. On that score, the answer is sadly yes.
You liberals out there are in grave error about a lot of things, but one of the main things you get wrong is just where anti-Semitism comes from. I know, you’ve been taught that Christianity was inherently anti-Semitic and that conservatism is anti-Semitic and that Hitler was merely an outgrowth of conservative, Christian views…but the basic race theories of Adolf Hitler were generated by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a renegade Englishman, decades before anyone ever heard of Hitler. And one may call Chamberlain what one will, but “Christian” and “conservative” don’t apply. This is not to say that Christians and conservatives cannot be infected with such a disease as anti-Semitism – it is to say that anyone can fall for such things because human beings, as has been seen since the Beginning, are susceptible to lies.
The problem, for the left as a whole, is that lies tend to build on lies – its one thing to say “well, those Zionists were wrong”, quite another to say “Zionism is racism”…there are a whole bunch of lies which have to be piled on top of each other to get from the former to the latter. Starting from the lie that the problem of the Middle East was Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the left has had one lie after another regarding Israel and the Moslems piled up until, now, the left is functionally anti-Semitic and is rapidly degenerating towards the most virulent, pogrom-inspiring form of anti-Semitism. Liberals are still congratulating themselves for being so tolerant of different people but, meanwhile, they are only a step away from excusing Holocaust II.
The saddest part about this is the continuing failure of the majority of Jews to see their peril. Not the first time this has happened, of course – most Jews in Germany failed to understand where anti-Semitism was leading even when Hitler was just a small-time fanatic disturbing the peace in Munich, let alone when he actually came to power. But human things don’t just happen. Earthquakes happen. Hurricanes happen. People develop. The key for anyone who wishes to prevent evil is to recognize where on the path we are and what we should do to get off it, if disaster is on the horizon. The majority of Jews – and especially American Jews – seem more interested in nursing grudges from a century or more ago rather than realizing that they’ve made a wrong turning. Just because someone says he’s tolerant doesn’t mean he is.
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