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July 22, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/07/18/the-hate-that-dares-not-speak-its-name/

The Hate that Dares Not Speak Its Name

(American Interest) Walter Russell Mead - Anti-Semitism is alive and well and not even particularly rare; it's just that many of today's anti-Semites like to think of themselves as enlightened, modern people. Since Hitler's death, the world has defined anti-Semitism down. To believe that Jews control public discourse and the media and bend the gentile masses to their sinister agenda is the essence of old fashioned anti-Semitism. People of good will everywhere should remember the need to fight one of the most vicious forms of prejudice that the world has ever known. Prejudice never recognizes itself; anti-Semites honestly think their delusional beliefs about Jews are simple, obvious truths. They are not. Anti-Semitism is real, it is murderous, and it is very much with us today. Whatever your religion, your politics, your views about Israeli policy, fighting anti-Semitism is part of what it means to be a decent human being.

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