[Right Wing Professor]

My point, in other words, is that either certain statements are racist by their nature, or they're not racist by their nature. If they are, then they're racist no matter what specific group name you insert into the statements.

Two statements

A negligible number of Jews died in the holocaust; anyone who says otherwise has an axe to grind

A negligible number of Arabs died in the holocaust; anyone who says otherwise has an axe to grind

Are the two statements equivalent? Of course not; the first is false and marks you as a Holocaust-denier; the second is true. Similarly, Sobran's statements, which are rather hysterical with respect to Israel, might not be hysterical if applied, say to Saudi Arabia.

[inquest]

I don't really know how to evaluate how hysterical Sobran's statements are with respect to Israel. I do, however, have to wonder exactly why it's considered so necessary to our security to be supporting Israel. About the best response I've gotten is that they provide us with intelligence on Arab regimes. And what are they going to do if we stop supporting them? Not provide us with intelligence? Somehow I don't think so.