I just read the article by Pilar Rahola. She has saved me a lot of typing. I couldn't have said it better. It has saddened me that the Left has joined the Right in the age-old game of Hate-the-Hebe. I fear that the Liberal support for Jews and for Israel (the only Middle East state with women's rights, strong organized labor, free elections, free press and independent opposition parties) was based on the view of the Jew as a victim. Sort of a "The only good Jew is a gassed Jew" thing. Anti-Semitism is as ingrained in European, Christian culture (we did, in fact, kill Jesus.) as white supremacy.
One can not live in this society without being infected by both biases. Those who deny their suceptability to these influences are doomed to perpetuate them.