Caution: May Lead To Unpredictable Results
John Hinderaker, whom I normally take as seriously as I take any other Ivy League Republican, actually raised an important point yesterday. First, he cited the Washington Free Beacon : A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to "globalize the intifada," hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish students, and forced the school's president to end the event early[.] Hinderaker then observes , “Globalize the intifada” means that no Jew should ever be able to live in safety, anywhere in the world. He cites shouts of "Go back home!" elsewhere in the story and asks, “Go back home”? Where might that be? Not Israel, evidently. Maybe, like the former “dean of the White House press corps,” Helen Thomas, they want Jews to go “back” to Germany and Poland. But they don’t want Jews here in the U.S., or in Israel. What strikes me in the current outbreak is that since the Holocaust, anti-Semitis...