...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Explanation redacted to avoid giving offence: Listening to Bernie Farber define antisemtism in the CJC's new "vlog" feature (fittingly, it's on the left of the screen), I have to say that he mostly seemed to "get it". By that I mean that his description of how Jew-hate used to be a right wing thing, but has now morphed into something else again--an intense hatred that has affixed itself to the state of Israel--seems pretty much on the mark. Bernie further explains that while "criticism" of Israel is completely legit, it veers into Judenhass territory when it calls for Israel's destruction--the desire to make the world Judenstaatrein, rid of the Jewish state.

On second thought, though, something about Bernie's briefing seems rather, oh, I dunno, lacking. Now what could it be? Please give me a sec while I run down the list. Judenhass: check. Judenrein: ditto. Judenstaatrein: ditto the ditto. I know. There are a few crucial things that seem to have been left out of the discussion. They are (drumroll, please): Leftists,  Islamists, Islam,  jihad,  jihadists, sharia, useful idiots and  Islamic antisemitism/Judenhass and its basis in Islamic teachings.

Such reticence may be explicable--it's due to the desire not to stir the Islamic pot; the bonkers notion that one can't criticize Muslims because that's the same as Jew-haters cricitizing Jews; the faint hope that Jews can build bridges with Muslims via "mentoring" programs and other cockamamie ingratiation schemes. However, just because it's explicable, that in no way makes it excusable.

Update: Say what you will about the ADL, at least it doesn't defer to Islamic sensitivities a la the Ceej and is willing to acknowledge that the Judenhass of our era is largely Islamic in origin.

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