"But what is going on in Edinburgh now is no satire. For me, Hughes represents a growing trend among left-thinking people in this country and around the world to accept as dogma that those on the Left should hate Bush, Blair, American imperialism, Israel and, while we’re at it, the Jews. It is a cultural trend that I’ve found increasingly evident but never before has the Jew-hating element been so overt. This week has confirmed that my Jewish paranoia is not entirely unfounded. As the old saying goes: “Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.”
Hughes wasn’t one for the odd remark or the clever comment; he waxed lyrical on how Osama bin Laden is far less of a threat than Dick Cheney, before defending Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, saying he has no intention of destroying Israel, he has just been misquoted.
Yet I sat in that audience and I didn’t heckle. In hindsight it is heartening that half of his audience sat in stunned silence, as I did, for most of his show; but at the time it was the other half of the audience who were whooping along and lapping him up that made the greater impression.
As for Hunter, he seems like a nice guy, well meaning and at times very funny. While Hughes did little to hide his Jew-hatred, in a way it is even more disheartening that Hunter is so keen to make the Holocaust fair game."
2006-08-15
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Six: I think you overestimate how sensitive Nadir and Tom might be to charges of "anti-semitism". Essentially, jews are merely one form of white people, so accusing Tom and Nadir of "anti-Semitism" hits them as no more of a sting than you calling them "anti-Irish" or "anti-Scandonavian". (Leave aside for the moment that Tom and Nadir and other leftists have the wierd notion that Spanish sirnames somehow indicate a non-white racial catagorization; they would blister if you accused them of "anti-Hispanism"). Sure, there are non-white Jews, and of course the original Jews were non-white. But the Jews who founded Isreal were white, and cannot trace their ancestory back to non-whites (though I believe most of them inaccurately claim that they can). These are the Jews that the leftists oppose, and leftists take no umbrage at accusations of bias against honkeys, especially honkeys with a much higher than average rate of success at things such as incomes, wealth, and standardized test scores.
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