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British Anti-Semitism, Then And Now

Mark Steyn replies to John Derbyshire replying to me on T.S. Eliot:

The sinister rootless cosmopolitan Jew reviled in Europe was never a big deal in Britain: the Wandering Jew has his work cut out wandering as far afield as the Wandering Englishman. But Israel is another matter. I happen to be reading Tom Bower's book Conrad And Lady Black, about my old boss and his wife Barbara Amiel. Barbara's sins are mostly the ones leveled by Brits at World War II Yanks – oversexed, overpaid and over here – but Mr Bower adds to them the following:

By 2000, Amiel had become a passionate supporter of aggressive Zionism… Barbara Amiel's writings in the Telegraph hardened the perception of the newspaper as an uncritical propagandist for Zionism…

"Aggressive Zionism"? Don't these formulations ring a little odd to American ears? Here's another example. A couple of years back, the BBC's in-house poet and arts pundit, Tom Paulin, gave an interview in which he said that "Brooklyn-born" Jewish settlers on the West Bank "should be shot dead" because "they are Nazis" and "I feel nothing but hatred for them". (Happily for him, a couple were, indeed, shot dead just a couple of days later.)

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