Outing myself

The Volokh Conspiracy notes that AdBusters.org has branched out from criticizing certain marketing practices into conspiracy theory. "Neocon-spiracy theory", to be precise. And published a list of these nefarious neocons, with a mark by the names of those who belong to the Jewish people.

Once upon a time, it was the extreme "right" who was obsessing about Judeo-Masonic conspiracies, and publishing lists of politicians, intellectuals, public figures,... with certain names identified by either a Star of David or the three dots in an equilateral triangle () that mean "Freemason" to some people and "therefore" or "from which it follows that..." to mathematicians.

Nowadays, it's the extreme nominal "left" that's doing largely the same thing, except that "neoconservatives" are taking the place of Freemasons.

Volokh Conspirator and law professor David Bernstein reacted by "outing" himself, graphically. I am hereby following his example.



Prof. Bernstein mulls over an interesting theory about the source for the vehemence of "left"ist Judeophobia: a variant on what I call the "Martin Luther syndrome" or the "spurned lover syndrome".

The Adbusters piece has a strong subtext of "Progressive Jews=Good; Conservative Jews=evil", evil of a sort that cannot be explained by simple intellectual error but rather by parochialism and selfishness of the sort that traditional anti-Semitism attributed to all Jews. Black conservatives, I've noticed, also get tarred with the sort of anti-Black stereotypes that "progressives" would never apply to Blacks in general. Consider how frequently Clarence Thomas is said to be a slavish, foolish lackey of Nino Scalia. This would not explain, however, why the anti-neocon anti-Semitism comes as much or more from Europe, where Jews are generally not a significant force in politics on any side, as from the U.S.

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[B.]

As you know , in Europe a joining of forces is building : the extreme left ("greens" and trotskyists ) , the left , and islamofascists march together in their hatred of Israel and of the US . Even the supposedly conservative government plays the card (it is true that all read the same papers , "Le Monde " and "Liberation")of the antiamericanism . This is not auguring well for the future ...