On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote:
> 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.
Of course that sort of thing was endemic in the higher circles of English society in the early 20th century. E.g., Keynes: "I do not mean that Russian Communism alters, or even seeks to alter, human nature, that it makes Jews less avaricious or Russians less extravagant than they were before."
Doug