Friday, July 19, 2013

Brendan O'Neil: What "Anti Zionists" and Antisemites Have in Common

Hint: JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS. 

"I think the line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is getting thinner all the time."

"These two worldviews are, if obviously not the exact same thing, then at least very close cousins."

"There is one inescapable thing that they share in common: a tendency to trace all global problems and instabilities back to the behaviour and beliefs of a Jewish thing, whether the Jewish people or the Jewish State. Modern-day anti-Zionism, particularly as practised by left-leaning, trendy Europeans, among whom it is highly fashionable, is the heir to old-style anti-Semitism in one very important way: it has a scary habit of treating Jewish stuff or Jewish people as the source of the world’s ills."

Hat tip: Melanie Phillips