Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Israel
In an interview for Atlantic Monthly, Obama got hit with two direct questions about Israel, both requiring a yes or no answer. Obama couldn’t do that. Instead, he blathered on and on and on, leaving discerning viewers to parse his bloviating and conclude that, perhaps, he thinks that maybe Israel was a good [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Britain, England, Islam, Israel, Nazis, Palestinians
The accepted wisdom is that the intense hatred the Palestinians feel for Jews is a direct result of Jewish annexation of the West Bank and Gaza after the 1967 War. Of course, as with most propaganda, this is false. Aside from conveniently ignoring the 1956 and 1948 Wars, not to mention the Koran [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Charles Johnson, at Little Green Footballs, frequently notes how often YouTube happily hosts the worst kind of antisemitic garbage, while at the same time shutting down anything that might be perceived as just a little too critical of Islam. He’s not the only one who has noticed this, and a Germany Jewish group has [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
It’s not a surprise — I figured it out myself — but it sure is depressing to see it confirmed:
Anti-Semitism, including government-promoted hatred toward Jews and prejudice couched as criticism of Israel, has risen globally over the last decade, the State Department said on Thursday.
“Today, more than 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is not [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Or is Ann Coulter veering in being really nasty about Eliot Spitzer’s Jewishness, and about Jews in general, both of which are entirely irrelevant to his free-fall?
Eliot Spitzer was the golden boy with an absolutely charmed life. His parents were the children of Jewish immigrants, who created a Ralph Lauren lifestyle for their children.
[snip]
Forget about [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
It wasn’t bad enough that Scotland Yard was probably infiltrated by anti-government Islamist working for the Jihad. That’s carelessness, although probably inexcusable carelessness. Nope. What’s really disgusting is that Britain has announced to the world that an Israeli politician is banned from entering England because he criticized England, while a radical Hezbollah [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Anti-Semitism, Identity politics, Jews
My post title imagines what I bet a lot of the older generation of Jewish Americans will think when they learn about the latest campaign tactics from the party that knows how to do identity politics. Steve Cohen, whose name is a giveaway as to his Jewishness, is running for reelection in Tennessee’s 9th [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Europe
Reading this, you can’t tell if it happened in 1938 or 2008:
An American tourist was kicked out of a cafe in Belgium for being Jewish.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old professor, told the Antwerp Jewish magazine Joods Actueel that he was ejected from the renowned restaurant Le Panier d’Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his yarmulke [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jews
If you’re a liberal Jewish voter, and tremendously excited about Obama’s candidacy as the fulfillment of the civil rights movement, slow down, Pardner. Jews have always assumed that, because they supported the civil rights movement with enthusiasm and hard work, there would be a quid pro quo by which blacks, recognizing Jews as fellow victims, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Smarting from her encounter with the ADL a couple of weeks ago, when she announced the perfectly accurate Christian belief that Christianity represents the perfection of Judaism, Ann Coulter took aim at the ADL in her latest column — and she’s absolutely right in what she says. The ADL is fighting the last century’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Hollywood
I can take or leave Halle Berry. I consider her a phenomenally pretty women, but otherwise don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about her. She popped up in the news, though, for making a catty comment on the Jay Leno show about Jewish people’s noses:
The Oscar-winning actress has issued a public mea culpa [...]
Bookworm on Oct 17 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Anti-Semitism
As is often the case, Jonah Goldberg has elegantly and eloquently nailed my thoughts on a subject — this time, abortion.
And while we’re on the subject of someone articulating better than I could my ideas about a subject, why am I not surprised that Dennis Prager correctly summarizes how false the kerfuffle is about Ann [...]
Bookworm on Oct 11 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Christians
Courtesy of the Anchoress, I’ve learned that Ann Coulter has done it again, this time coming out with remarks that are going to sound anti-Semitic. Here’s what Ann said during an interview with Donny Deutsch:
DEUTSCH: Christian — so we should be Christian? It would be better if we were all Christian?
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: We [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Democrats, Presidential elections
I complained yesterday about tightly constrained, programmed Presidential candidates. I can stop complaining now. We’re about to have a candidate who says anything that comes into her head, no matter how stupid. FogCity Journal, citing “reliable sources,” says that Cynthia McKinney is planning on throwing her hat into the ring as Green [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, United Nations
Actions tomorrow will speak louder than words today, but something interesting came out of the mouth of a UN representative — namely, the admission that the UN is focusing a disproportionate amount of its attention on condemning Israel. You don’t believe me? It’s true:
The UN Human Rights Council has failed to handle the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Leftist morality
One more thing, related in a way to the SF mural post I did earlier. Yesterday, I did a post about that amazing collection of photographs that came to the US Holocaust Memorial, showing photos of the Auschwitz staff (guards/management) at play. My post was fairly banal, in that I made the unoriginal observation about [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Immigration, Jews, Leftist morality, Mexico, San Francisco
San Francisco’s Mission District is, demographically, a primarily Hispanic district (about 50%), with the remainder of the population being White and Asian. Traditionally, it’s been a mixture of immigrants (legal and illegal), poor, working-class, and artsy-funky. It’s in the news today because the District used a $34,000 City-funded grant to paint a mural [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Jews
A reader sent me a truly excellent article by Alan Caruba, writing at Canada Free Press, that tackles the resurgence of an obsession with Jews as “the other,” bent in some unnamable way on world domination or destruction:
With the advent of the two most holy days of the Jewish lunar calendar, Rosh Hashanah, the “New [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Almost a year ago, I did a post attacking the Sasha Baron Cohen ditty “Throw the Jews Down the Well.” Here, in pertinent part, is what I said:
What I do know is that the whole sketch seems to have become something of a license to be anti-Semitic. On the website I linked to above, you [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-war, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jews, Palestinians
Through a reader, I just got wind of the shenanigans (or, should I say, the Sheehan-igans) going on at Beyt Tikkun, the ultra Left wing synagogue in Berkeley. It turns out that the special guest at this year’s High Holy Days is going to be none other than Cindy “get Israel out of Palestine!” [...]
Don Quixote on Aug 27 2007 | Filed under: America, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews, Jimmy Carter
For six hours this Sunday I watched my TIVOed copies of Christiane Amanpour’s God’s Warriors specials. Amanpour’s biases clearly showed through, especially when she tried to portray Muslim radicals as some kind of a small fringe group, or when she spoke to fundamentalist Christian leaders in a tone dripping with disdain. But, it appeared, she [...]
Bookworm on Aug 25 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Christians
UPDATE: Hey, everyone. Thank you so much for taking this post to heart. You can stop calling Orkin now, though, because Orkin has been helpful, honest and responsive regarding this show. Here’s their representative’s latest missive:
Just want to circle back to give the final update from Orkin. We had purchased advertising that was supposed to [...]
Bookworm on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Iran, Israel, United Nations
No comment, ’cause this one speaks for itself:
Despite its numerous calls for Israel’s destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism.
The planning committee, which will meet for the first time in [...]
Bookworm on Aug 05 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Anti-Semitism, Anti-war, Britain, Children, Elections, England, Europe, Israel, Judges, Judicial activism, Marriage, Media matters, Mitt Romney, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Presidential elections
I’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting.
The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really liked:
But it was Romney forced [...]
Bookworm on Jul 26 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel
I missed it a year ago, but Mark Steyn has republished a year old article he wrote about the renaissance of anti-Semitism:
But all the hoo-ha about Holocaust denial (and granted, from President Ahmadinejad to Mel Gibson’s dad, there’s a lot of it about) has obscured the fact that the world has re-embraced, with little [...]
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