These are way too numerous to keep up with. Here's 2 samples from Andrew Sullivan's blog...
"KILL THE JEWS": What are the odds that if two Muslim Americans were attacked outside a bar in Los Angeles by a bunch of white ethnics, that we would have heard of it by now? But the equivalent allegedly happened to two Jewish guys in West Hollywood, who were set upon by a gang of Middle Eastern youths last Sunday night:
John Griffith, a resident of Sierra Towers, says he saw more than 20 men surrounding the two victims and witnessed five kicking and beating the victims, repeatedly chanting "Kill the Jews!" When the victims fled to seek safety with Sierra Towers' security guards, Griffith says, two suspects followed the men and threatened the guards with a metal pipe taken from a nearby sprinkler system and with fists, before the guards fought them off. "It was the worst thing I have ever observed," Griffith says. "I kept screaming at them, but they were yelling so loudly they couldn't hear me. I kept yelling, 'I've called the cops.' "They didn't budge, they just kept attacking these guys," he adds.
No coverage yet in the Los Angeles Times. UPDATE: Matt Welch emails to let me know that the LA Times did cover the attacks, but the text shows no reference to their anti-Semitic nature.
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SADDAM AND THE JEWS: I'm mystified why more hasn't been made of Saddam's assertion in his letter to the United Nations of the global threat of world Jewry. Here's the key passage:
In targeting Iraq, the United States administration is acting on behalf of Zionism, which has been killing the heroic people of Palestine, destroying their property, murdering their children and seeking to impose their domination on the whole world, not only militarily, but also economically and politically.
Like the rest of the letter, this part is barely literate but its meaning is clear. Saddam is claiming that the U.S. is a tool of Zionist forces that are trying to take over the whole world! This isn't like Hitler. It is Hitler. When a figure like this simply echoes Nazi language, why isn't there universal shock and derision? Why isn't that the headline? Or have we become completely inured to the fact that the 1930s are alive and well and centered in Baghdad and the West Bank?
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Items like this make it plain that the media has a relative blind spot for crimes and rhetoric against certain groups, white males and Jews to name a couple. Let similar physical action or words take place against Muslims, people of color or gays and the press goes on a holy crusade. Yet these above items go relatively unnoticed.
Another reason I hate all this anti-semitism is that now I take wicked flack for all my Jewish jokes.
-p (thankful for the net)
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