DG is drawing notice to a form of political correctness that's been around for quite a few decades, that's all, and I think most of us know what it is...

It is that people are frequently attacked as being "anti-semitic" merely because they criticize the Israeli government's policies in Israel and the occupied territories. This has much the same impact as if they were labelled "racist" for suggesting that O.J.Simpson might possibly have murdered his wife or lied in court.

It's a fear tactic to label people in that fashion, and it is used frequently.

It causes politicians and media people in particular to be very circumspect when it comes to what they say (publicly) about Israel. It also causes police to have fear of publishing any statistic which indicates the number of urban blacks involved in certain violent crimes...although to so publish ought to be an incentive to help the blacks in urban America improve their situation, rather than to cause anyone to demonize black people. (It's mostly other blacks who are the victims of the violence.)

It's sad, and it's endemic in this society. People are afraid to call a duck a duck, if it happens to be a black duck or an Israeli duck. This is what happens when society bends over backwards to right a previous wrong, and creates a plethora of new wrongs in the process.

The emperor has no clothes, but no one is allowed to publicly say so.

Similar fear tactics are being waged against people who publicly protested the war...only they are labelled as "traitors" instead of "racists" or "anti-semites".

McCarthy used such tactics to shut people up and shut them down. So did Hitler...in the early stages. Later he just had them arrested and shot.

- LH