Läste just en välskriven recension av den brittiska politikern Dennis MacShanes (Labour) nya bok om antisemitism.
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There are lots of features of US policy that foreigners, and plenty of Americans, think are misguided. But only with Israel do critics seem to assume that the White House loses all rationality and takes dictation from some extraneous, parasitical force. If the 'Israel lobby' was all-powerful, MacShane notes, it might have done something by now about Washington's solid alliance with Saudi Arabia, which is the chief exporter of an ideology explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel and of the Jews.
MacShane looks at the set texts of radical jihadi Islam and finds them full of abuse of Jews. He observes that the idea of an aggressive Jewish conspiracy is not a marginal strand in Islamist radicalism, but the essential premise. An ideological edifice of murderous hatred towards Jews is being erected in communities around the world and yet many people think anti-semitism is something that once happened in pre-war Europe. Worse, many left-leaning, liberal intellectuals seem to think that anti-Israel rhetoric is one of the more reasonable bits of the jihadi agenda - that on Zionism, at least, the terrorists have a point. Except that, by Zionists, al-Qaeda means Jews and its reason for hating them is that they are conspiring to control the world. Any complicity with that notion was anti-semitic in the Thirties and it still is.
Globalising Hatred is a small klaxon of a book, more concerned with raising the alarm than building a thesis. The arguments sometimes reel around giddily but are steadied on their way by solid facts. And in case you wondered, no, Denis MacShane is not Jewish. Does that make a difference to his argument?
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