This is a keeper.
"...when Frank Rich and most other Jews on the left see right-wing non-Jews, they see swastikas. It is an inversion of the famous scene in Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall in which a WASP character is depicted as seeing the Woody Allen character as a Hasidic Jew. Most American Jews on the left (like leftist professors on college campuses) inhabit an insular universe, where regular (never mind intimate) contact with conservatives — especially Christian conservatives — is almost non-existent."
"As a Jew who has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism — from being sent by Israel to the former Soviet Union to aid Soviet Jews, to writing a book on anti-Semitism (Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism), to serving on the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — I have always found any trivialization of Nazism and the Holocaust offensive. That Jews would do this — to fellow Americans, no less — and solely in order to serve their left-wing politics, is worse than offensive. It is immoral."
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