Wednesday, August 13, 2003

MORE ANTISEMITIC CORRECTNESS

I have always observed that it takes a woman to really scratch the eyes out of another woman and we have rather a good example of that in this review of a book by a reformed Leftist. But some good points get through anyway:

“Chesler defines the new anti-Semitism as “a virulent epidemic of violence, hatred, and lies that are being touted as 'politically correct.' Islamic reactionaries and western intellectuals and progressives who may disagree on every other subject have agreed that Israel and America are the cause of all evil.”

To her credit, Chesler does take on two of the more notorious of this band—Noam Chomsky and Edward Said, and even performs a credible mea culpa as she admits that her efforts to focus on “the psychological effects of discrimination and violence on oppressed, colonized, and racially despised peoples,” might have had something to do with “the politically correct madness [that] seems to have hijacked most North American universities.””


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