The National Socialism This Time

clipped from pajamasmedia.com Rush has been downright forceful in defending Israel, yet I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Jew defend him. It is frightening and sobering for me, as the child of Holocaust survivors, to see my co-religionists align with pals of unambiguous anti-semites like Rev. Wright. I let my wife choose to raise our kids as protestants, rather than have them risk the fate of my grandparents. American Jews have cast their lot as poorly as many German Jews did nearly a century ago. I can honestly say I never imagined in my blackest moments I’d see this. Yes, the mainstreaming of anti-semitism (disguised as being tough on Israel or “Zionists”) has proceeded apace, even while people on the right are the ones called Nazis.