John Moore ó Putting aside the folks I see every week who cut to the chase and just yell “Fuck the Jews” at us, I think it’s reasonable to correlate anti-Semitism with Anti-Zionism. Certainly whenever the Saudis put out a manual for the troops or some ignorant mullah starts ranting about “the Jews”, their standard fallback on the rare occasions when they’re challenged is, “well, by Jews I mean the Zionists…”

It’s one of the three great “social lies”:

I don’t hate the Jews, I hate the Zionists

I don’t hate the troops, I hate the war

Some of my best friends are colored people

And like all social lies, when the people who tell them think they are in private or among a large enough number of like-minded bigots, they sing a very different song…