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Anti-Semitism and the right

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I’ve seen more expressions of anti-semitism from the European left than I would ideally like to see. Of course, I’d ideally like to see none, so that’s not saying much. And I’m referring to actual anti-semitism here, not criticisms of Israeli policy. If strident criticisms of Sharon and the settlement movement count as anti-semitism, then Israel is one of the most anti-semitic countries in the world.

The right, in both the US and Europe, makes a great deal of hay from left anti-semitism (real and imagined). For some of them, it may well be sincere. But when they praise UKIP (here, and even more comically here), the disastrous UK political party for Euroskeptics, well, it’s hard to take their enthusiastic anti-anti-semitism all that seriously, given the extent to which this party has its own problems with anti-semitism, assuming holocaust denial still counts (and don’t even get party leader Robert Kilroy-Silk started on Muslims, but perhaps that’s where the common ground can be found with the Right–if you’re bigotry toward Muslims is sufficiently vigorous, they’ll indulge you a bit of anti-semitism as well….).

Update: edited for embarrassing spelling errors. Damn that spellcheck dependency syndrome!

Hat-tip to Henry Ferrell and Josh Chavetz.

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