Peter Beinart has a characteristically excellent post in Jewish Currents, Antisemitic Zionists Aren’t a Contradiction in Terms, explaining why, both historically and today, many anti-Semites around the world praise and admire Israel—because they want their countries to be as ethnically “pure” as they imagine Israel to be, and because they wish “their” Jews would get…
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The U.S. is a country of peace. A piece of you here, a piece of you there
Bill Maher and John Cleese have a mostly enjoyable rap on “political correctness,” which of course they don’t care for. I agree with about 90% of what they have to say, but when Bill brings up his take on Islam—the “piece of you here” bit alluded to in the head—I felt a certain disenchantment. It’s…