Wednesday, December 31, 2003

The Mass Psychology of Judeophobia

From The American Thinker (http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=48)

The outdated and inaccurate euphemism “anti-Semitism” is on its way out, to be replaced by much preferable neologism “Judeophobia,” a phenomenon mostly identified with the left. Contemporary hatred of Jews in the West is primarily found among so-called progressives. An important discourse on Euro-Judeophobia is newly available in English, courtesy of Frontpage Magazine. Pilar Rahola, a Catalan from Barcelona, is a noted figure on the Spanish left who has opened her eyes, and speaks honestly about reality as she sees it. A feminist, Rahola has something of the tone of a Camille Paglia about her: someone who doesn’t mind probing deeply into the modern mentality, regardless of where it takes her.

Her analysis of why the European left is so taken with the Palestinian cause, and so eager to overlook its sins, while engaging in hypercritical examination of Israel, is telling. Here are just a few of the gems she scatters before us.

You can read the entire interview at
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11495

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