Somewhere in Western newsrooms and political backrooms, there must be an instruction manual or playbook entitled “How to make accusations of antisemitism with hardly any facts.” I imagine that Steve Paikin got hold of it and employed it to write his latest column. I am afraid that the piece is seriously lacking in intellectual honesty.
And they are not in it for support of Jews. They are not Israeli Jews’ friends. They want the temple rebuilt so that the second coming happens, which will lead to the rapture, leaving Jews to languish in Armageddon.
One of them frequently used to say to me “first to the Jew.” I had to explain how incredibly uncomfortable that made me.