Pollution like him swirls around in the gutters of every democracy

Ever wonder why debate about the Middle East is stifled to the dichotomy of either being pro-Israel or pro-Terrorist, and why America was the only country in the world to support Israel while it bombed civilians and infrastructure in Lebanon when it should have just targeted Hezbollah? Come and read about world renowned piece of shit Abe Foxman, President of the Anti-Defamation League.

“Anyone who criticizes Israel’s actions or argues that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over U.S. Middle Eastern policy … stands a good chance of being labeled an anti-Semite.” That would be where Abe Foxman comes in.”

Indeed, he does. Foxman branded Tony Judt a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite. Judt, if you are interested, is a well-known historian who teaches at NYU and frequent contributer to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. (my favorite article of his is entitled ‘The country that wouldn’t grow up‘, a writing on the 58th anniversary of the creation of Israel). But the most interesting fact about Judt, and Foxmans comments? Judt is Jewish and lost several members of his family to the Holocaust.

Not only does he live in his own state of delusion, but creates an atmosphere that reinforces it — a world full of anti-Semites, waiting eagerly for the chance to execute another Holocaust that can only be stopped by imagining the world as such:

All that, so far as Foxman is concerned, is a pleasing delusion, like the soigné Berlin of 1925. In his most recent book — “Never Again?” — he makes the stupefyingly counterintuitive claim that high rates of Jewish assimilation are a reaction to discriminatory treatment, rather than a proof of the opposite. “One out of three people in these United States believes that the Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the U.S.,” he growled. “That’s a classic anti-Semitic canard.” And yet a Pew Global Attitudes Poll in 2004 found that anti-Semitism had declined in much of the West and was lowest in the United States. A Pew poll last year found American support for Israel as strong now as at any time in the last 13 years.

The damaging element is not Foxman himself, but that he is listened to, his falsities come presented as facts, and his defamation of character and of culture are marketed as the opposite: ‘anti-Defamation’. ‘Experience — primal experience — has taught him that the truth does not win on its own merits; the market for falsehood is just too powerful’.