It isn't looking good right now.

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There are egregious levels of anti-Semitism in the Middle East, and children are being immersed in it, practically from birth.

No, really.

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Laurence seems tense. Are all the New York Money People in Texas like that?

It seems like some people want to ethnically cleanse the planet of New York Money People, and there's tremendous overreaction to that in some quarters.

Perhaps instead of ethnically cleansing them, we could simply send them back where they came from.

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Is that, like, a hotel lobby, or one at a doctor's office? And is it decorated in an early 20th Century style, or is it more Middle Eastern?

Just curious.

Via Insty, who remarks that "you're supposed to call them 'New York Money People.'"

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jokes that anti-Semites vote Republican.

Hell of a glass house he lives in, huh? Of course, John Podhoretz has already made that point.

Via Beth Donovan.

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Darleen on the horror in SF, and connecting the dots.

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Time that with this strange excuse

Pardoned Kipling and his views,

And will pardon Paul Claudel,

Pardons him for writing well.

—W.H. Auden, attempting to redact material from a Sheriff's arrest report

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"It has to be mortifying for a man to publicly apologize for having gotten drunk and said things that made him sound like Al Sharpton sounds sober."

Yes. And I admire Gibson for his public statement: he's acting like a stand-up guy.

The bulk of this issue is between him and his family. But he let his fans down, too. So in my own small way I can forgive. I cannot forget, though. I'll never forget.

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I know alcohol and testosterone are a potent combination, but the antisemitism had to come from somewhere. It's pretty much over between you and me, Doll.

No one can ever take away your achievements, however. And this doesn't make The Passion of the Christ retroactively anti-Jewish.

Once in a while, one has to distinguish between an artist's work and his ugliest thoughts. This is one of those times.

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All I want is for the Islamic and Arab worlds to grow up and join the fucking club: everyone gets parodied by newspaper satirists. If you're offended by a picture of Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, I hope you're yelling yourself hoarse exhorting fellow Muslims to stop setting the goddamned things off. Otherwise, you deserve no respect and dishonor your faith.

Via Tom Gross, who has more here.

Thanks to Yolanda over at this thread, for pointing me to the mother lode of anti-semitic material.

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Photon Courier gives us the word from a Spanish writer who's watching this insanity develop. Head on over there (and be sure to browse the Courier's site while you're there: he may be The Most Underrated Blogger on the Internet).

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My cousin* Attila, the "Pillage Idiot," wrote an interesting meditation on the unique relationship between Jews and America. I love it, and I think it has a lot to say, by extension, about other ethnic groups in their own relationships with this nation. We comprise the first nation to make equality an ideal and to push hard toward that ideal.

And that is what makes us the Shining City on the Hill.

* We're related by marriage. He's a Marylander Jew, and I'm Californian Anglo-Saxon/Native American trailor trash. But we both like to plunder and pillage, so we get along fine.

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Joe Gandelman reports on young Britons who don't recognize the significance of the name Auschwitz.

I once lived with a mathematician who had left academia to work in entertainment. Just as some in my family got interested in geneaology, a few in his family had as well. But it's different when Jews decide to put together their family histories: I have books and binders full of anecdotes about the Oregon trail, life in Nebraska. I have a folder on my husband's family with stories about Ireland (a land that has its own heartrending tragedies, of course), and migration to America. My former significant other's family history was page after page of "Name -- died at Aushwitz."

To hear that young people in any Western country are not really learning about the holocaust fills me with deep rage, partly because I think this failure of education helps to fuel the growing anti-Semitism in Europe. And partly because the story transcends ethnicity as a cautionary tale.

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is being excerpted at Beautiful Atrocities, which certainly lives up to its name this week.

Trust me: this one is sick.

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