Liberals and judeophobes

Slate is clearly worried about rising left-wing anti-Semitism. (Slate: Are you a Liberal Anti-Semite?) So how do you know you're an anti-Semite or just a good liberal criticizing Israel's bad policies? That's a question you never dared to ask your mother, right? So here comes professor Alvin Rosenfeld of Indiana University to the rescue with a nifty little questionnaire to settle the matter once and for all.

Please, answer the questions first before reading any further...

My score: 18. Rosenfeld's verdict: You're an anti-Semite! Well, thanks, Honorable Professor, I really didn't know that!

Let's first examine the questions and answers. In 8 out of the 10 questions, a B is definitely the right answer for anyone who is not on the payroll of the Mossad. Exceptions are:

Question 1: Who deserves the most blame for the Iraq war?
a) George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld
b) Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Bill Kristol
It's just a dirty trick, because the persons under b) are all Jews. They played their dirty behind-the-scenes role, but that can't absolve the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld trio.

Question 6: What do you think of Joe Lieberman?
a) I liked him OK when he ran with Gore, but he lost me on Iraq, school vouchers, and Social Security.
b) The most dangerous man in the Senate
I don't agree with a) because I never liked him, but b) is not right either. He is not the most dangerous man in the Senate. It's another dirty trick question, Lieberman is Jewish.

By the way, never mind about the c) answers. They are reserved for Bush and Olmert.

The Zionists are always deliberately confusing anti-Semitism with anti-Jew and anti-Zionism. Arab people are also Semites, just like the Jews. So to be qualified to be an anti-Semite, you have to be against the Jews AND against the Arabs. Once at a dinner I was sitting next to an old-fashioned Flemish fascist. (Sometimes you can't avoid bad company...) When I started criticizing Israel, he was jumping up and down with joy, a rather peculiar performance considering his age. Well, five minutes later I started to defend our fellow-citizens of Turkish, Algerian and Moroccan origin, and he almost started vomiting up his dinner.

This guy is an anti-Semite, against the Jews, against the Arabs, no doubt also against the Blacks and the Chinese menace. I am not. I am only against the Zionists, because they are the successors of the Nazis.

Rosenfeld's questionnaire is disgusting, aiming to stick the label of anti-Semite to anyone criticizing the Ziocons.