The World's Oldest Hatred: Maybe Not Fashionable, But Not Not Fashionable

UPDATE: Before we forget, the terrorist chic look is nothing new. Gawker's Blue States Lose has been mocking it for years.

ORIGINAL: Last week, the New Zealand Herald finally got to the bottom of why Air New Zealand deleted the word "God" from an inflight version of The Queen: they were trying to avoid offending Muslims:

The mystery over God's removal from Air New Zealand's in-flight movie The Queen appears to have been solved - the film was probably a version intended for Middle Eastern airlines. Air New Zealand says it was sent the wrong version and has asked for an unedited one after baffled passengers complained that all mentions of God were bleeped out of the movie. Air New Zealand spokeswoman Pam Wong suspected the word had been edited out at the request of other airlines.

Idiotic dhimmitude, obviously. But that's not what this post is about. Consider:

Walmart has yet to remove their Nazi T-Shirts 66 days after the t-shirts bearing Nazi insignia were discovered. Can you imagine what would happen if there was a shirt celebrating, say, the Crusades?

Urban Outfitters only got around to banning their terrorist chic keffiyehs this weekend, after numerous complaints by Jewish groups (money line: "The manager of one New York Urban Outfitters store said the keffiyeh was his top selling scarf"... no kidding). This is in an age of widespread boycott threats against any company that indirectly supports any other company that indirectly supports Israel. And in Britain, they're still being sold!

Raving Islamist anti-Semite Cat Stevens comes back to play and be interviewed in the United States - which is now archived on an NPR website - and Los Angeles liberals celebrate the event as historic. Politically correct hate: not enough to get you kicked off of NPR.

General Motors? More or less unrepentant former Nazis. Ditto for Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and VW/Audi. Sigh.

The critical question is: in an age of hypersensitivity, where Burger King designs that look too much like the word for Allah can inspire near-riots and where imagined slights against Muslim airline passengers can trigger boycott threats - what does it mean when, in a world like that, offense to Jews and Israelis is so widespread? What is the status of Jewish and Israeli life when they can be accused both of controlling the world and yet are offended often and sometimes with relish?

We don't think that all of the people responsible for these outrages hate Jews. We just think that they care a lot less about Jewish and Israeli sensibilities than they do about what the local PETA nutcase is going to think about their faux-fur line. And that lack of concern is not insignificant, and it comes from somewhere.

Previously: John Mearsheimer - Not Anti-Semitic. Just Anti-Semiticish, Port Deal Rewards Anti-Semitic Arab Boycott, The Orwellian Origin and Development of the Term "Anti-Semitism"