On hating the Jews: The inextricable link between anti Semitism, anti-Americanism (Repost)

No hatred has as rich and as lethal a history as anti-Semitism--"the longest hatred," as the historian Robert Wistrich has dubbed it. Over the millennia, anti-Semitism has infected a multitude of peoples, religions and civilizations, in the process inflicting a host of terrors on its Jewish victims. But while there is no disputing the impressive reach of the phenomenon, there is surprisingly little agreement about its cause or causes.

This is just absolutely fantastic analysis:

Despite the differences between them, however, anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and anti-Americanism in Europe are in fact linked, and both bear an uncanny resemblance to anti-Semitism. It is, after all, with some reason that the United States is loathed and feared by the despots and fundamentalists of the Islamic world as well as by many Europeans. Like Israel, but in a much more powerful way, America embodies a different--a nonconforming--idea of the good, and refuses to abandon its moral clarity about the objective worth of that idea or of the free habits and institutions to which it has given birth. To the contrary, in undertaking their war against the evil of terrorism, the American people have demonstrated their determination not only to fight to preserve the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity, but to carry them to regions of the world that have proved most resistant to their benign influence.

Excellent post. Should be required reading for all Freepers.

Oy, VAY!!

I already spent all so much time arguing back and forth over this article, and now here you post it again??

Even a Jew can get tired of arguing, you know - and even about antisemitism!!

Oh well. Here's the first posting . Maybe we can go back over there and argue some more from where we left off, instead of re-arguing everything all over again here...

Thanks for posting this again, John. The first one I saw was an excerpt, which, in light of the critical importance of this article, made me nervous because articles like this tend to "disappear" off the 'Net never to be found when you really need 'em (although I printed out a copy of this).

But now it's all safe and secure here at Free Republic!

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