Andrew Sullivan Finds Some Jews Acceptable

Well, speak of the devil. Not quite literally, of course. I mean Andrew Sullivan. I only just mentioned him, very much by the way, and bingo, now I have to do a post on him. Again.

There’s a lot of stuff in my mind that I would like to cover and this was originally intended to be a more ambitious post but no time right now so I’ll just give an extremely brief summary.

A recent post of Sullivan contains not one but two anti-Semitic tropes. Here they are:

1. Good Jews vs Bad Jews:

Most American Jews, of course, retain a respect for learning, compassion for the other, and support for minorities (Jews, for example, are the ethnic group most sympathetic to gay rights.) But the Goldfarb-Krauthammer wing – that celebrates and believes in government torture, endorses the pulverization of Gazans with glee, and wants to attack Iran – is something else.

Gotta love that little “of course”, eh? Who the hell is Andrew Sullivan to start classifying and evaluating Jews? A patronizing little prick, that’s who. With self-declared philosemites like these, who needs anti-Semites? Go fuck yourself, Sullivan. Do us a favour and start hating us properly like the Ron-Paul-loving pratt you really are.

2. Shadows and darkness: not enough that the “neocons” Andrew disagrees with are, according to his learned opinion as expert taxonomer of Jews, betraying what Jews really ’should’ be like. No, there must also be “something much darker” about them. This is classic anti-Semitism.

UPDATE: there is an excellent post at The Daily Dishwater about yet a further anti-Semitic post by Sullivan, and as it does the job of dissecting his particular form of patronising racism very well, I’ll just leave you with the link, as I have to run.