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 Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Europe, Leftist morality
While idly browsing the shelves at our local public library, I stumbled across a fascinating book — one that is fascinating on a couple of different levels. It’s called Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America, and was written by Andrei S. Markovits, a Jewish man who was born in Romania, and raised during [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I really, really, really have to work now, but I wanted to make sure you knew about Melanie Phillip’s heart-breaking description of the violent antisemitism that is increasingly on the rise in Britain. I used to be a passionate Anglophile, considering it the more civilized among nations, with a flawed history (and what nation doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
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