Celebrating Anti Semitism

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The hip poet Amiri Baraka (aka Everett LeRoi Jones) recently died. He was once poet laureate of New Jersey, held prestigious university posts and was canonized with awards -- despite being a hateful anti-Semite.
After 9/11, Baraka wrote a poem that suggested Israel knew about the plan to attack the World Trade Center. One of his poems from the '60s included this unabashedly anti-Semitic passage: "Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured." Yet that did not preclude the New York Times and NPR from praising him after his death.
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In politics, Israel often finds itself at the wrong end of a troubling double standard.
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Nazis and racists used to spearhead Jewish hatred, based on ancient crackpot defamations that date back to the Jewish diaspora into Europe after the Roman destruction of Judaea.
But lately, anti-Semitism has become more a left-wing pathology. It is driven by the cheap multicultural trashing of the West. Jewish people here and abroad have become convenient targets for those angry with supposedly undeserved Western success and privilege.
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Kerry is not rushing into Damascus to stop the bloodletting that has claimed far more lives than all the Palestinians lost in 70 years of conflict with Israel. Syrian President Bashar Assad, Shiite terrorists and al-Qaeda would not listen politely to Kerry's pontificating sermons.

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Jewish World Review 

Jan. 16, 2014/ 15 Shevat, 5774
The cowardice of the new anti-Semitism
By Victor Davis Hanson