[Alouette]

Calling PJB an anti-semite is a tired canard.

Are you saying it's not true?

[Clemenza]

I don't think Pat is so much an anti-semite in the classic sense, but rather an old school country clubber with little tolerance for ethno-religious lobbies and a blindly religious devotion to paleoconservative historical counterfactuals.

Lets also not forget that controversy sells books.

[sobieski]

Clearly, he is not an anti-semite. He is not a raving supporter of Israel, I’ll give you that. But Israel is a foreign country.

[wardaddy]

I don’t think he is an anti-semite.

He is an oddball at best on WWII history and admittedly does think the Israel lobby here wields too much power but so did William F Buckley and plenty of others...as well as even some in the far reaches of your denomination even who think Israel shouldn’t even exist yet..

That is not anti-Semitism. He simply doesn’t hold to what has become the conventional wisdom.

History is pretty replete with what is genuine anti-Jewishness.

I don’t agree with him myself on this particular stuff but shouting him down with bigot baiting falls flat for me. Let him defend his odd comments, he’s not exactly calling for pogroms.