Kesher Talk

Anti-semitism, anti-Zionism and the Left: Mick Hume writes today in the New Statesman about the strange company of Western leftists:

Once upon a time, a hundred years or so ago, it was fashionable to attack something called "Jewish capitalism". August Bebel, a German friend of Karl Marx, described this attempt to give anti-Semitism a progressive spin as "the socialism of fools".

Today's fashion for Israel-bashing seems to me to represent a similar foolishness. It is not old-fashioned anti-Semitism. But there is a growing tendency to endorse dubious ideas under the guise of solidarity with the Palestinians. It is the anti-imperialism of fools.

posted by Howard @ 6/17/2002 12:35:41 PM