A Comment About

Anti-Semitism Without Anti-Semites

July 19, 2008 - 12:30 am - by Henryk Broder
cedarford
2008-07-19 10:22:54

vb, he is not intimidated by the PC police because he IS the PC police. In Germany, most criticism of Jews is already criminalized as hate speech and this author wishes to expand it to criticism of Israel counting as verboten hate speech. Thus his call to fire a government employee for making criticisms of Israel in his off-hours on a blog. And his calling the US Israel Lobby an “anti-semitic fantasy”. And his claim that anti-Zionism is indistinguishable in its roots from classical (illegal in Germany) anti-Semitism in that it arises from irrational resentment may be his way of laying the ground to make criticism of Israel forbidden as well in Germany. (and by extension, the EU, eventually)