We at Jewdar know that many would like nothing better than to bask in the warm glow of certainty that the conservative movement is chock full of slavering anti-Semites. Fortunately for the Jews (if not for the sense of smug self-satisfaction of lefty Jews), that is not the case, and much of the responsibility for that rests with William F. Buckley, who passed away last week.
When Buckley arrived on the scene, the movement was, in fact, dominated by Jew-hating troglodytes like the ones who hijacked the American Mercury by the 1950’s. Throughout his career, Buckley took a firm position against the hate that loved to speak its name, and the fact that a good chunk of the movement would eventually come under the guidance/control of Jewish neo-cons speaks volumes for the impact Buckley had on cleaning up the place. It would be nice if someone could come along and do as good a job of rooting antisemitism out of the Left.
Yay, he wasn’t a Jew hater. I suppose we should give him credit for not being a child molestor either.
By the way, how the fuck does his non-Jew-hating rhetoric bringing Heebs into the neo-con movement translate into a postive thing? Liberality was doi
Bringing Jews in the neocon movement isn’t positive; the fact that the Conservative movement was no longer a bastion of antisemitism is a good thing, thereby allowing Jews to enter the neocon movement is a good thing. I believe firmly that if Jews want t
You always win :(
antisemitism in the left? Cmon guys, that’s a cheap shot – anti-zionism yes, anti-semitism exceptionally rarely
I think I agree with Charlie. Are you equating criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews? Or are there other examples of antisemitism that are not Israel-related that I’m not aware of in the left?
Antisemitism on the left is different from old-school antisemitism on the right, but it’s been around for a long, long time (remember Marx? “What is secular cult of the Jew? Haggling. What is his secular god? Money. Well then, an emancipation from haggli
And, linking it all back to Buckley, he made the conservative movement the kind of place where people carrying antisemitic signs at a rally aren’t welcome. Say what you will about the left, they definitely can’t say the same thing.
I see you’re point about antisemitism masquerading as antizionism. I guess it gets tricky about how you decide what’s antisemitism and antizionism.
Personally, I’m often left to rely on Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s description of porn: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never
The point is sort of moot now, but I thought, for the sake of absolute clarity, that I’d better supplement my other statement: that *Absent any explicit antisemitism, such as in the picture you pointed to,* it gets tricky deciding between antisemitism and
Hmmm it’s not tricky.
You don’t like Israel: anti-zionist.
You don’t like Jews: anti-semitic.
Glad we cleared that up, you’ve been a great audience *bows*
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