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Holocaust Survivor, Congressman Tom Lantos Dies

Holocaust Survivor

Sigh:

A spokeswoman for Rep. Tom Lantos of California says the congressman has died. Spokeswoman Lynne Weill said Monday morning that the 80-year-old Lantos, the only survivor of the Holocaust to serve in Congress, died at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Lantos, a Democrat who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed last month that he had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.

Lantos, despite being the farthest thing from a foreign policy hardliner, was regularly branded a dual loyalty "neoconservative" by seething anti-Israel activists. There was apparently something about him that they hated so much that they overlooked what he actually believed while they snarled viciously and defended themselves as merely "anti-Zionist." He, of course, knew exactly what that was.

References:
* California Rep. Tom Lantos, 80, Dies, Had Cancer [Fox News]
* Oh For Crying Out Loud. Pelosi Now Actually Meeting With Iran (?? ) [MR]

Previously:
* Even 40 Years Ago, Anti-Zionism was Already Anti-Semitism
* If Anti-Zionism Isn't Supposed to Be Anti-Semitism, Someone Should Probably Tell the Anti-Zionists
* Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism

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