[HighSierra5]

Let’s hope that the conservatives in France denounce any antisemitism.

[nathanbedford]

I suppose anti-Semitism could equally be described as bigotry against Semites of both flavors, that is, Arab or Jew but the French due not seem to be equal opportunity bigots. Their animosity to the Jews has been identifiable through the centuries, the Dreyfus affair being known to us all. The anti-Semitism of Vichy France during the war years is rather well-known.

I have been trying to figure why leftists in the Western world are turning more and more toward anti-Semitism and pro Arab sympathies. Jews have a long history of association with socialism and therefore one might assume that they would be welcomed for that reason in the ranks of leftists. History doesn't always conform to presumption, Soviet Russia was not always kind to Jews.

Jews have been and historically stiffnecked people, and in the age of leftist collectivization, anything that upholds individual integrity is to be damned.

The leftists are making common cause against the Western world with Arabs and the price of admission to that club is apparently anti-Semitism, or at least being anti-Israeli.

I concede, I am at a loss to uncover the root of its present manifestation.