Stanley’s post reminded me of a point I’ve been meaning to bring up for a while. Many Arab anti-Semites like to say “I can’t be anti-Semitic, I am a Semite!” This is, of course, an ignorant dodge. The word “anti-Semitism” was coined by Wilhelm Marr in Germany in 1879 because the common word for Jew-hatred, Judenhass, had gone out of style. The only major population of “semites” in Germany at the time were, of course, Jews and Marr hated them. Anyway, because the word is a dodge, many Jew-haters in the US get to play silly games with it too.

But the opposition to this war by the anti-Semites simply underscores how they really are Jew-haters. After all, a real anti-Semite should love this war because Arabs are, in fact, Semites too. In this sense the US is simply hunting where the ducks are. Yet even at this level these guys are hypocrites, because its not Semites they dislike, it’s just the Hebrew ones. Just a thought.