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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (76713)2/23/2003 11:10:29 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
There is a line in here somewhere that everyone is in danger of crossing. Brooks' article gets very close to the line. An argument can be made that it hasn't crossed it; another that it has. The line is to find yet another reason to bash critics of the Bush administration by arguing not that they are unpatriotic or communist or whatever, but that they are anti-semitic.

The quotes Brooks uses in the article are certainly objectionable, the ones which are clearly anti-semitic. But Brooks goes further by arguing that the demonstrators are dupes because he finds anti-semitism in some of the outer fringes of the organizing. That's just the smallest step from saying that opposition to Bush is anti-semitic.

This all needs to cool off. There is anti-semitism in American life.It has usually been on the further right; apparently, now there is some on the left. We should all be ashamed of it; it comes from our collectivity. But that should not be used to stop criticism of the Bush administration. Or any administration, for that matter.
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