They don't face it because they don't want to face it. To paraphrase Candide, if anti-Semitism did not exist, Zionists would have to invent it.
Even among people who think of themselves as Lefties, and don't think of themselves as Zionists, there's often a reluctance to acknowledge just what a disaster Israel is, and for these folks, a chimerical anti-Semitism on the part of the Other Side provides a bit of cover.
> (There's a TV show in Russia called "Apartment
> Pogrom."
Every apartment I have ever lived in looks like a pogrom.
All this puts me in mind of the grandfather of an old friend of mine, born in a Russian shtetl sometime in the 1880s, I think, a guy who as a child and a young man had seen real anti-Semitism close up and personal.
For his 90th or 95th or some other fantastic birthday his family took him to see Fiddler On The Roof. I haven't seen the show myself, but I gather there's a pogrom scene in it -- Kossacks rampaging around and chewing the scenery. During this scene, Grandpa's shoulders were observed to shake and tears were seen trickling down his cheeks. The family were concerned. When the lights came up, my friend leaned over. "You all right, Grandpa?"
Grandpa, weak with suppressed laughter, could barely speak. "You call THAT a pogrom?" he finally choked out, between his guffaws.
-- --Michael J. Smith --mjs at smithbowen.net
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