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.