The new third rail

According to Micheael Gerson is apparently looking with any manner of critical eye upon policies when they are advocated by groups that have some jewish members or advocates.

You apparently cannot criticize policies, if those that perpetuate those policies happen to include people who happen to be jewish.

Unless, of course, they are George Soros...because "you know how 'those' people are with money".

Because if you criticize their policies you are a religiously intolerant bigot. Now shut up and help us kill Iraqis in order to give those people freedom to practice their faith, 'no matter how many of them muslim sonsabitches we have to kill'. Because to criticize the policy when someone who favors those policies happens to be jewish makes the baby Jesus cry. So the policy must continue, even if it isn't a good policy, because if you try to change it, well you must be the next Hitler.

In American political discourse, you can of course, talk trash about Islam all you want (but lay off in the cartoons); or even on occasion certain Protestants or Catholics, especially the liberal ones who don't like killing more than they don't like gays. But nobody can criticize AIPAC or Likud -- because then you must be a raving anti-semitic asshole. And every right-winger or enabling ex-officio member knows that nobody loves Jesus and the Second Coming more than those who don't yet believe in the First one. In fact, AIPAC just made General Petraeus an honorary member so that should immunize him from those awful MoveOn.Org people, even though they are not people, but liberals.

Oh no, I just used snark on matters that peripherally touch upon policies that are supported by some people, some of whom, also happen to be jewish. I am not only the only person in this room, why I'm also the biggest anti-semitic in it!

Thanks Michael Gerson for bringing back the the Bobo Brooks' classics.