"A modern skinhead"

Charming photo from a recent International ANSWER rally in - where else? - America's most tolerant, progressive city.

In their excellent book Why the Jews?, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin describe the sheer absurdity of people demanding the destruction of "the Jewish state" while insisting they aren't antisemitic:

Can someone deny that Italians are a nation, work to destroy Italy, and all the while claim that he is not an enemy of the Italian people because he does not hate all Italians? The question is obviously absurd. If you deny Italian nationhood and any Italian rights to their homeland, and seek to destroy Italy, no matter how sincerely you may claim to love some Italians, you are an enemy of the Italian people. The same holds true for those who deny Jewish nationhood and the Jews' right to their state, and who advocate the destruction of Israel. Such people are enemies of the Jewish people, and the term for their attitudes, even when espoused by people who sincerely like some Jews, is antisemitism.

Posted by damian at June 9, 2004 07:06 AM