Is Buchanan an antisemite?

Martin Schiller mart555 at t-three.com
Sun Nov 21 09:13:27 PST 1999


michael perelman said on 11/20/99 10:10 PM


>I think that it was Jeff Cohen who said Buchanan only became an "official"
>antisemite after he challenged the powers that be in the Repug party.

The last time that I touched base with this discussion antisemitism hadn't been defined. Now you've jumped way ahead, it seems to me.

I'd be interested to hear whether an anti-semite in the current context (Pat Buchanan) is (a) someone whe finds semitic peoples repellent or (b) someone who is willing to create/perpetuate the perception that semitic peoples are repellant for the purpose of advancing an other cause/personal gain. Or is anti-semitism inclusive of both of those groups? Somehow it seems that there ought to be a distinction.

Martin



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