It should be noted that the ADL had a much more muted criticism of Palin using the term as opposed to the garbage put out by National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) and J Street. Believe it or not, at an NJDC event during the 2008 campaign, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) insinuated that Palin was antisemitic because she carries guns and hunts moose. (How idiotic is that!)
The Jewish Left, fearful that Jews and others may be turning against them, is taking advantage of every perceived opportunity to falsely insinuate that Palin is antisemitic. It's obviously just a political game they are playing, since these same groups had absolutely nothing to say, for example, about Obama's connection to real antisemites like Rev. Wright, Rashid Khalidi, and Edward Said. What these groups are doing is deflecting attention away from the antisemites on the left with their petty and false attacks on Palin, who they perceive to be a major political threat to them down the road.
The left thinks that they are the only ones smart enough to use figures of speech, and get all stupid, pretending not to understand when figures of speech are used by their enemies.
“The Jewish Left, fearful that Jews and others may be turning against them, is taking advantage of every perceived opportunity to falsely insinuate that Palin is antisemitic.”
The Jewish Left is about 20 years too late for me, and this contrived, selective use of such accusations merely alienates me further from them. They cry “anti-Semite” too often, while the Jew-haters murder with impunity, because of their lost credibility. Wasn’t there a story about a boy and some sheep that was similar?