Well, I just got to go one thing to say after reading this article from Leon Wieseltier, boom boom; no I will say more, is it just me but don't culturalism and ethnicization bring the worst in people?:
Jewish self-hatred is another term for Jewish anti-Semitism, for the
internalization of the standpoint of the enemy; and this is a genuinely
grave charge. Jews who fling it about for political ends are desperate
and disgraceful. And they are some of the same people who are outraged
when right-wing African Americans are smeared as Uncle Toms.So I wish to attest--I have placed my hand on my copy of The Zionist Idea--that Rahm Emanuel is not a self-hating Jew. I know this.
I have never met David Axelrod, but I am aware of no grounds for the
suspicion that he has committed "race treason." (I take that charming
phrase, which sounds like it was translated from Treitschke, from David
Mamet's thuggish book The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews.
Mamet is another one of the Most Jewish Jews of All.) Differing with
Benjamin Netanyahu does not yet make you a bad Jew. If Emanuel is a
self-hating Jew because he believes that Israeli settlement in the West
Bank should finally cease, then I, too, am a self-hating Jew. Perhaps
you will agree, friends, that this is not very plausible.
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