Quite the remarkable screed
One Patrick Chisholm, in his editorial titled An Anti-Semitic left hook in the Christian Science Monitor, takes a running start and jumps into the middle of absurdity.
Anti-Semitism traditionally has been associated with the extreme right. Now, it is becoming more common among the extreme left.
Or maybe not. Maybe the flaws in his editorial are due to a lack of appropriate terminology on his part. Although he makes this true and reasonable observation:
Contrary to what one would think, left- and right-wing extremists are, in major respects, ideological soul mates. Don't be fooled by labels; applying the simplistic terms of "right" and "left" to complex political realities naturally begets confusion.
While ultra-rightists are generally thought of as racist and ultra-leftists as nonracist, the latter are by no means immune to such decrepitude.
he consistently conflates Leftists with the likes of Robert Mugabe and the Third Reich (yes, he went all Godwin) rather than Nelson Mandela and Switzerland. Those of us that have gone through the Political Compass exercise will recognize the commonality Chisholm sees is authoritarianism, not Leftism.
I also want to note that Chisholm is a Semitic Supremacist.
Palestinian hatred of Israelis, I suspect, is based on more than just land disputes and the policies of the state of Israel. Much of it likely derives from envy. Jews as a whole are among the most able, hard-working, and intelligent people ever to inhabit the earth. Wherever they go they succeed. They turned Israel into an economic powerhouse for its size, and "made the desert bloom." Success breeds envy. Envy breeds hatred.
Taking my shit breed hatred too. So does destroying my tools and then blaming me for being unable to build anything. And surrender as a precondition to negotiation is simply a non-starter.
