Jonah: You don’t need to be named “Goldberg” to get that stuff. Any time I
say anything favorable about Israel, I get ‘em. For your information — I’m
guessing this doesn’t show up in your own e-mail bag — the currently
fashionable synonym for “philosemite” in these circles is “Jew-fellator.”
My consolation is that I get a roughly equal number of e-mails accusing me
of antisemitism. This is in accordance with Derbyshire’s First Law of
Opinion Journalism, viz.:
*Derbyshire’s First Law*: Anything — anything whatsoever — that a Gentile
says about Jews or Israel will be taken as rabidly antisemitic by somebody,
somewhere.