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Pink anti-Semitism is no different from brown anti-Semitism

02/27/2013 10:26 By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Radical gay activists are claiming that Israel is engaging in ‘pinkwashing’ — i.e. using Israel’s openness to gays as a strategy to conceal violation of Palestinians.

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The core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the assertion that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that is wrong is done by the Jews. For the anti-Semite every rich Jew is exploitive, every poor Jew a burden on society. For the anti-Semite, both capitalism and communism are Jewish plots. For the anti-Semite, Jews are both too docile, allowing themselves to be led to the slaughter like sheep, and too militant, having won too many wars against the Arabs. For the anti-Semite, Jews are too liberal and too conservative, too artsy and too bourgeois, too stingy and too charitable, too insular and too cosmopolitan, too moralistic and too conniving.

To the anti-Semite, every depression, war, social problem, plague must have been the fault of the Jews. Whenever the Jews appear to be doing something good – giving charity, helping the less fortunate, curing the sick—there must be a malevolent motive, a hidden agenda, a conspiratorial explanation beneath the surface of the benevolent act.

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Pink anti-Semitism is no different from brown anti-Semitism

Radical gay activists are claiming that Israel is engaging in ‘pinkwashing’ — i.e. using Israel’s openness to gays as a strategy to conceal violation of Palestinians.

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