The question is, is the quote taken out of context or not? If it is, it is either incompetent history or willful distortion of the record.
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Lenin's Tomb leninstombblog at googlemail.com Thu Feb 26 05:05:48 HST 2009
Couple of points. First, Nicholson Baker's book was subject to a number of similarly hostile reviews in the UK press, precisely because of its failure to uphold the historiographical mainstream.
Second, Churchill *was* antisemitic. There is a minor cottage industry devoted to defending Churchill from his own antisemitic outbursts (eg: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/11/news/winston.php), mainly because he was pro-Zionist. Martin Gilbert has produced an appalling history, redeeming Churchill's antisemitic remarks about 'the International Jew' and his paranoid ranting about Jews and the Bolsheviks. The apologia is especially astonishing given the alacrity with which timid criticisms of Israel are labelled antisemitic.