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I... underestimated the propensity of my people for narrow-mindedness and self-destruction (the Jewish vote for Mrs. Clinton was about 70%). They must want Palestinians to have a state of their own more than I knew; the plan must be to give them New York (then they can kiss Suha Arafat personally). Some anti-Semitism is irrational, founded in ignorance, as in Hillary's case, where she'll do things like blurt out an anti-Jewish slur at you just because she's mad that her husband lost a congressional bid--even though you're just a Baptist with a Jewish great-grandmother. Then she'll try to cover her tracks years later and have her Jewish campaign head ask bigwigs at the Jewish Advisory Board to call the Jewish papers to say they don't believe the charges--but they're not to mention that the campaign asked them to call (i.e. use one Jew to ask some more Jews to lie to the next Jews so they would print an article deceiving the rest of the Jews about what she said 25 years ago to the first Jew, who wasn't really a Jew). But other forms of anti-Semitism can be earned, giving folks legitimate grievances against a people because they do crazy things like EXTEND HILLARY CLINTON'S POLITICAL LIFE! This is not to cast the entire blame on Jewish New Yorkers; they alone couldn't have elected her. In my initial optimism, I equally underestimated the urban pseudo-intellectual's high-mindedness, as well as the Everyman's yearning for celebrity in his midst. Julia Gorin, Getting used to Hillary
Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2000 / 29 Mar-Cheshvan, 5761
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