Shadow, you just don’t get it, do you? I am not American, so of course I am a “wingnut” to you: my outlook is different from yours; and of course I live in what you think is a “fantasy world”: I live in a world that you never lived in. As for your 13 yo students, I don’t mind to be compared to them in their prime, before long years of PC indoctrination.
As for evidence, I don’t feel the need to provide any evidence in a blog comment: you either think about it, or you don’t. In this case, you might like to ask yourself which side of American politics has registered the largest increase in antisemitism since the 6-days war: if you win converts to that side, then, whatever good you might be doing, you are also working to increase antisemitism.
To get a broader perspective, you might want to look at Europe pre-ww2. You could start with Max Geltman’s essay: On Socialist Anti-Semitism, and follow up with chapters 7 and 8 of George Watson’s The Lost Literature of Socialism.
You might also like to investigate the history of the word “left”: a good place to start would be chapter 4 of Watson’s book.
On the positive side, I see that Dan [#101] has provided a reasonable critique: I don’t agree agree with his views, but at least he did not use ad hominem arguments.
