Eric Alterman is very properly disturbed by virulently anti-Semitic remarks made by the Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, snarking:
Here are your tax dollars at work.
This is a good catch, and a definite step forward from last week:
A lot of Jewish organizations get their funding - and a lot of Jews their personal identities - from hyping anti-Semitism in Europe in general and France in particular… As far as I can tell, any increase in anti-Semitism in Western Europe is attributable to the influx of young Arabs and they have reasons - whether you or I like or not - to hate Jews that have nothing whatever to do with traditional European anti-Semitism.
Yikes. Presumably Alterman would not react favorably to someone countering his more recent post with the assertion that there are “reasons - whether you or I like or not” for the guy he’s quoting to hate Jews.
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