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A book I re-read recently and will re-read soon: George Clare's Last Waltz in Vienna His memoirs of his Jewish family in Austria, c. 1838 - 1938. One quote will have to suffice: We were, of course, Social Democrat. What other party could a Jew vote for? The Social Democrats were at least officialy not anti-Semitic. Many of their leaders were Jews. Their conscious motives were absolutely their subconscious ones guilt and fear. The guilt and fear [was] the same that motivates so many middle class people today, who, ashamed of their inherited educational and social privileges turn to progressive causes so long as they can form an elite of the Left and enjoy more equality than others. Their fear was of the anti-Semitic mob. A party that stood first and foremost for equality obviously could not allow inequality between Austrians who were Jews and those who were not Hence every Social Democrat sensed a protective wall of non-Jewish Social Democrats around him. We all know how well *that* turned out. I should note that there's no excuse in America for calling Republicans or conservatives anti-Semites.

“I should note that there’s no excuse in America for calling Republicans or Conservatives anti-semites.”

Sure, but the charges come out anyway, with impunity, accepted as truth. (Absolutely amazing.)

IMHO