Here's a little article in The Presbyterian Outlook that does the usual yada-yada absolving the author and friends of the charge of anti-Semitism. Phew! What a relief!

Is the Presbyterian Church (USA) Anti-Semitic?

Most of the article requires registration to read (BugMeNot), but it's not that important since I'm not going to go through it point-by-point anyway. Here's the thing -- the quick point I wanted to make -- and it's something that a lot of people like the author, Geoff Browning, don't seem to grasp. They are stepping into a long running story, a narrative with a story-line and actors well known to each other. We've seen one attempted genocide after another since before the founding of the state, and every time an attendant re-writing of history, and in recent decades a campaign of unbelievable ideological ferocity designed by those very same people for the specific purpose of hiding their true agenda -- one that's expressed itself through massacre, stealth slaughter and main force by turns whenever the means or opportunity have presented themselves. So now the representatives of the same agenda have cast about for new means and new terms to cloak itself in, and it's had some success.

However they cloak themselves, we recognize them and their purpose. We know who's seated at the other end of the table.

So along come folks like Mr. Browning, and we enter and see him seated at the other end of the table from us, in line with all those faces we've seen before, saying all the same things they do. It should come as absolutely no surprise to Mr. Browning that he and others like him get accused of being anti-Semites.

Now, maybe it's not his fault that he can't see behind their masks. He doesn't have our experience or knowledge -- although certainly, the more you know, the less excuse you have, and it's perhaps ironic that Browning's piece appears in the same issue as an interview with one of those folks who has no excuse and probably is an anti-Semite, Fahed Abu-Akel -- but all these articles declaring how pure of heart the author and friends really are are quite beside the point. Look at where you're sitting, and who it is you're sitting with!