Jewish and Feeling Unimportant? Be a PAIJ!
December 20, 2009 at 17:25 3 comments
If you’re a Jew with a need to make yourself more important than you really are, here’s one career option with a relatively high chance of success: become a PAIJ – a Public Anti-Israel Jew. Editors of the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman and the BBC will flock to you like flies to shit. They need PAIJs as a cover for their Israel-hating agendas. “Obviously”, so the thinking goes, “whatever we’re putting out can’t be called anti-Semitic if the people who are saying it are Jewish”. So they find some Jews who are willing to do their saying for them, and voilà, they’ve got themselves provably non-anti-Semitic hate campaigns against Israel! Now, as a random PAIJ you may never become as big as a Noam Chomsky or a Tony Judt — indeed chances are you’ll have to settle for being a very minor figure. But still — you’ll get published, your name will be out there, you’ll get some attention. Worth considering, no? Hundreds of your fellow MOTs are already well-established in this trade, but there is plenty of room for more!
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