In Search of Anti-Semitism, by William F. Buckley Jr. (Continuum, 207 pp., $19.95)
LEAVE it to William Buckley to see right to the heart of a complex issue. Instead of assuming that “we all know” what anti-Semitism is, he takes up the burden of sorting matters out. This he does with wit, insight, common sense—and unfeigned affection for the Jews and appreciation of what the State of Israel stands for. I don’t know of a more profound statement of affirmation than these words on the special claim of that state upon the moral conscience of the West: “There is no geographical promontory out there, populated by Catholics who are exposed to terminal persecution . . . there is no Catholic Israel out there, surrounded by Catholic-hating Moslems who have five times attempted to drive the Catholics to the sea, and into it.
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