Monday, November 30, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jeffrey Goldberg: The State Department's Myopic New Anti-Semitism Czar [Hannah Rosenthal] - '...Really? Anti-Semitism in Europe is the problem? Of course Europe has a problem with anti-Semitism (much of it manifesting itself as "anti-Zionism"), but Rosenthal, in this interview, has nothing at all to say about Muslim anti-Semitism, and nothing to say even about Iranian Holocaust denial. Nothing. And let's look at the logic of this statement: "As the child of a Holocaust survivor, I thought Europe would be further along in the tolerance agenda than they are." Why? Why should a continent that has historically been unable to tolerate the presence of Jews be expected to tolerate the presence of Jews? I'm always surprised by people who are surprised by European anti-Semitism. I'm not sure if Rosenthal is myopic or just a sloppy thinker. I'm not even sure I should judge her thinking based on this interview, but it's not a very impressive start. '
