Excellent writing about a depressing reality. It is the best observation of anti-Semitism that I have read in some time.

The Rise Of Anti-Semitism
Dr. Michael Ledeen on Fox News
http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/videos/ML081506.php - video

I began formulizing my case at the beginning of this month for why both Christianity and Judaism are in for a rough time.* I pointed to a reason that even Dennis Prager (author of Why The Jews) admits he'd overlooked in that book.

Key elements. Abraham, in revolting against pagan practices (human sacrifice), established the core ethos of the modern creeds: elevating innocent human life to a sacred plane. Believe in life, not death. My interpretation: have faith in boundless human resourcefullness not fearful of limited (dwindling) natural resources.

It is my hypotheis that those who do not cherish innocent human life (or would have a differing view of what constitutes innocence) never forgave Abraham. Those like them will be most hostile to any who carry on Abraham's idea.

I make the case (in a way I am not quite satisfied with yet**), that those who have most embraced post-modernism are not only not hostile to radical islamic death cultism, but are actively helping it.

Many of us do want to accept this, but I believe it is an unyeilding logical consequence to the rampant pessimistic outlook for humanity that has been inculcated by the West's counter-culture. It certainly is consistent with the nihilistic strain that Stephen Hicks Explaining Postmodernism identified as one of Postmodernism's three key elements.

-------
*Also Anti-Americanism as I lamented in January.

** My front page version is still being edited, while the link above is over a week old now.

sorry, looks like I couldn't make up my mind whether to write formulating or formalizing, and didn't catch it until now.

Kip: A study of the writings of some very highly placed Catholics from hundreds of years ago shows the kind of hatred Gerard discusses. And while it is true that mankind always has persecuted the "other", that otherness has been related to different characteristics at different times - color, language, diet and other cultural markers - EXCEPT in the case of the Jews, who have always been persecuted for their Jewishness. It has indeed been a fanatical philosophical hatred for a very long time.

If only hatred of the chosen people was a newer blight on the planet, we would have a better chance of irradicating it.

Probably not politically correct to say so, but the virus is also spread in baath houses from Syria to San Francisco.

Gagdad: Gerard's not going to be happy that he missed using that one himself, that's all I've got to say about it :)

Speaking of a virus of the soul.... Note that the man in the photo is sporting a "soul patch" (which here functions as a Hitler moustache appearing along the lower, not upper, lip).

So-called "culture" (Western, American, secular - what-have-you).

I would have said "goy baath houses."

...and that's no Shi'ite.

The guy in the picture looks like Liza Minneli's last husband.

It's 1935 and two men in Berlin are listening to Hitler rant against the Jews. One says to the other, "Very interesting, but I prefer it in the original Arabic."

Why, its just not fair that God would choose a people for His own.

Exquisitely said, Gerard. Would that it falls upon a receptive ear or two.

I will freely state, here and now, that I am anti-Semitic myself. Why should I want to admit that?

Arabs are Semites, too. And they are the ones that I am "anti-semitic" towards.

Fletcher,

Cute, but the term "anti-Semitic" has nothing to do with the "semites" as understood by anthropologists.

The term "anti-Semitism" was coined in the XIXth century by Jew-haters who wanted a more "scientific" sounding cognomen than "Judenhass."

Virus source: R&D Department, Hell.

Location of first infection in Humans: Garden of Eden. (Believed to be transfered from a snake.)

Anti-semitism: One of the most obvious symptoms of infection (most symptoms are much more subtle)

Only known cure: Blood of Christ (applied daily) WARNING: Self-application only! Any other application results in spreading the disease.

"If it is denied transmission to the young, it can be eliminated..."

Kill the first-born of Mohammed?
(Buddha? Vishnu? - Fill in the blank)

Actually, there are Anti-Zionists who are not also Anti-Semitic.

I know this for a fact because I met both of them in 1979.