[churchillbuff]

I've certainly seen Buchanan described as an antisemite. But it's a word that is very seldom defined by those who wield it against him. -- like "racist", in Jesse Jackson's vocabulary, the failure to define makes it easier to use against people for vague and unspecified reasons.

How do you define the word, "antisemitic"? Does opposing the Iraq war make one "antisemitic"? If so, why? And if so, does that mean Pope John Paul II was antisemitic, because he opposed the Iraq invasion as vehemently as Buchanan did.

[LibLieSlayer]

I read some of pat's works, "Death of the West", and "A Republic, Not an Empire". I define the author of those books to be racist, and Anti Semitic. I am not going to go into a synopsis of these books, but if you have not read them, you certainly should.

To read them and come away thinking pat is enlightened, and not the things he is accused of being... would be impossible IMHO.

Websters states:

anti-Semitic: 1. Having or showing prejudice against Jews: disliking or fearing Jews and Jewish things. 2. discriminating against or persecuting Jews. 3. of or caused by anti Semitism.

anti Semitism: 1, prejudice against Jews; dislike or fear of Jews and or Jewish things. 2. discrimination against or persecution of Jews.

My definition is a borrowed one... "I'm not exactly sure of how to define it, but I know it when I see it"!

I see it almost every time I read or hear pat buchanan. The Iraq war has NOTHING to do with pat being anti Semitic, but when he discusses it... it pours forth like a fountain. An example is when he was on Scarborough's show, and called the US Congress "Occupied Israeli Territory".

LLS