Apparently, Jews are off the hit list this year. I couldn’t find many menorah-vandalizing stories at all this year.
The Stony Point town hall menorah was vandalized, but that’s about all. Of course, there was the run-of-the-mill anti-Semitic vandalization of a Chabad house at Indiana University, but hey, that’s just your typical anti-Semitic prankster having a little fun, throwing a beer bottle through a window, and removing the word “Jewish” from the “Jewish Student Center” letters on the front of the house.
Anti-Semitism is the one hatred that never, ever goes out of style, and it’s also the one that people almost never have to pay for. Just ask Congressman Jim Moran. Or the Palestinian Authority. Or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Or the Economist, that insists that there is no anti-Semitism at all in the current uproar over the David Abrahams scandal, even though shadowy Zionist conspiracy theories have been raised from the get-go. The problem, you see, isn’t the anti-Semitic articles, pictures, and comments being thrown. Listen to what the Economist says the real problem is:
The real cause of the syndrome is subtler than that. It is a vague but powerful sense, which many immigrant antennae pick up, that there is somewhere an inner sanctum of Britishness, an elusive top table, to which, by reason of birth and class, the newcomer is not invited, ostensibly welcomed though he may be. Finding a way to it, through lavish acts of patriotism or patronage, becomes for some a mission more compelling than money. Three or four generations in, most Jews have outgrown those neuroses; but some haven’t, and other, newer ethnic groups, such as some Anglo-Indians, have acquired them.
You see? It isn’t anti-Semitism. The problem here is that silly Jew, David Abrahams, trying to prove to the Brits that he’s mastered his inferiority complext. And gee, nice way of looking at the reason Jews give charity. It couldn’t possibly be because that has been part and parcel of our religion for millennia. No. It has to be because we were poor a few generations ago, so we understand what it’s like to be poor, and give accordingly. Tzedakah? Never heard of it. Maimonides Eight Levels of Charity? Shyeah, why would that have anything to do with Jews giving money?
For every post on anti-Semitism you read here, there are dozens of stories that I refuse to write about. I won’t even link that one directly (thank you, tinyurl!). It’s typically despicable drek by an asswipe who can’t write, but thinks he can; can’t reason, but thinks he can; and can’t cope with his own horrid little life, but thinks he can blame the Jews for all the wrongs in it. Shyeah. Rogue elements in the U.S. government, in association with the Mossad or other Israeli intelligence services, are responsible for 9/11. Someone get “George” back on his meds; he’s suffering from delusions again.
He also doesn’t get that antisemitism and Constitutionally-protected free speech are not mutually exclusive.
Perhaps there have been fewer Menorah vandalizations because Chanukah is so early this year. The mooks haven’t figured out it’s time.
Interesting that along with the obligatory British antisemitism, the Economist takes a swipe at Asian Indians. Like Jews, they are successful because they are educated and industrious and don’t blame others for their failures – and don’t resort to terrorism justified by an endless menu of mostly imagined grievances. And unlike some other groups from that part of the world.
It all helps to confirm my theory that antisemitism is not about Jews, it’s about antisemites. They are nitwits and born losers who can’t own up to their own shortcomings and failures so they blame it all on the Jooos. And it can easily spread to bigotry against other groups that succeed because they refuse to succumb to the ghetto/grievance mentality.
Of course the UK media will pursue this story, even though Brown and Blair blocked an inquiry into much larger and explicit Saudi bribery. Not campaign contributions like Abrahams’, but explicit bribery.
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