Any claims of anti-Semitism - mostly coming from offended ZIONIST Jews - should be seen in the context of the toxic nationalism of Apartheid Israel .
Long before the Holocaust Zionism was fanning the flames of Anti-Semitism with the increasing aggressive re-settlement of Jews in Palestine . The legendary American journalist Vincent Sheehan wrote about this in his classic " Personal History " . Read carefully the last chapter titled " The Holy Land " :
" I could not believe that the Arabs of Palestine were so different from other Arabs that they would welcome the attempt to create a Jewish nation in their country ".
In the very first chapter of " Personal History " Vincent relates his encounters with anti-Semitism at the University of Chicago ( " The Modern Gothic " ) . Back then a student could be ostracized - especially by FEMALE students - if he joined any fraternity which admitted Jews. Sheean respected the Jews he knew for their basic decency and devotion to scholarship .
At first he thought he could be " objective " on his assignment to cover Zionism in the " Holy Land " circa 1929 . But he was quickly convinced of the evil of the Zionist agenda in Palestine - which was at first a program , Sheean point out , serving only British imperialism.
This chapter of Vincent Sheean's book " Holy Land " should be reprinted by the New York Times for the purpose of " balance " in covering anti-Semitism today.
It is quite possible that the hate inspired by the Zionist imperialist project of post World War I in Palestine fed the hate that led to the Holocaust of the Nazi era.
As a young man Vincent Sheean was clearly influenced by Marxist ideas. But later in life he is reported by other leftists to have joined the " intellectual in retreat " crowd.
In a 1969 edition to " Personal History " Sheean writes about the " their [ Marx and Lenin ] erroneous hypothesis of class struggle and the eventual dictatorship of the industrial proletariat "
Considering the tumultuous REVOLUTIONARY year 1968 it is clear that this great journalist, in his declining years, had forgotten or abandoned " the long view of history " - as did so many Jewish intellectual, ex-socialist internationalists.
Fanatical Zionists today are hardly fair judges of malevolent anti-Semitism.
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