Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Will Needs A Vacation

Perfidy Attacks

The Left’s Anti-Semitic Chic?.  Backed up by nothing in the article, of course.  I wonder if Will actually wrote the headline.  Onward:

Here the term intellectual is used loosely, to denote not only people who think about ideas—about thinking—but also people who think they do. The term anti-Semitism is used to denote people who dislike Jews. These people include those who say: We do not dislike Jews, we only dislike Zionists—although to live in Israel is to endorse the Zionist enterprise, and all Jews are implicated, as sympathizers, in the crime that is Israel.

Today’s release of Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ” has catalyzed fears of resurgent anti-Semitism. Some critics say the movie portrays the governor of Judea—Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect responsible for the crucifixion—as more benign and less in control than he actually was, and ascribes too much power and malignity to Jerusalem’s Jewish elite.

A few things come to mind.  First, anti-semites are people who dislike Jews for being Jews.  And yes, small-minded one, you can dislike Zionists without being an anti-semite.  Unless you believe that all Jews are Zionists, which they’re not.

Will then raises Gibson’s “The Passion”.  Why he provides this as bolstering material in an article accusing the entire left of being anti-semitic is beyond me.  He might want to do a little exit polling at theaters, where he might rapidly discover that (shocker) religious Christian types are the main audience for this film.  Say, which way do the religious Christian types in this country lean, anyway?

Oh...I forgot.  It’s a movie, which means it is inherently part of the left wing conspiracy.


Posted by Ross on 02/25/04 at 06:54 PM
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