A couple months ago, in an instant of such momentous stupidity that it bears repeating, Noam Chomsky insisted that there is no anti-Semitism in the West. Rather, it seems that everything that we call anti-Semitism – synagogues that get burned in France, Jewish kids who can’t ride the subway in Belgium, and Jewish Presidential candidates that get yelled at to “go back to Tel Aviv” in the United States – are really just criticisms of Israel. Apparently, the Zionists are trying to get you to think that those things are anti-Semitic so that they can bully into silence the brave men like Chomsky who would bring to light the atrocities of the Jewish state.
Apparently, there’s also no anti-Semitism in Pakistan:
“This is also an unsubstantiated assumption based on the misunderstanding of our society. Anti-Semitism is not widespread in Pakistan. We don’t have a Jewish community. True, here and there there are marginal expressions of anti-Semitism, as there are in many societies in the world… mainly in the Christian world. Most people in Pakistan, certainly the elite, the educated, know very well how to distinguish between Israel and Judaism. Criticism of Israel and Zionism cannot be defined as anti-Semitism.
So: (a) educated Pakistanis (b) know the difference between Israel and Judaism and (c) don’t participate in anti-Semitism. Which I suppose makes it difficult to understand why Daniel Pearl was brutally decapitated by London School of Economics graduate Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh after being forced on camera to admit that because he was an evil, conspiring Jew. Clearly an expression of anti-Zionism committed by the ignorant.
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