CONFLUENCE OF INTERESTS:

Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism go hand in hand: The excuses for hating Jews change over the centuries; most recently, it is a political phenomenon coinciding with another growth industry, anti-Americanism. And these dual fashions make for strange bedfellows indeed, ranging from anti-globalization leftists to jihadi fascists. (Rabbi Moshe Reiss, 2/18/05, Asia Times)

The left wing has joined hands with Muslim fascists - the Islamists and jihadists. The Islamists and jihadists are anti-American, anti-globalization-modernists and theologically anti-Semitic as well as anti-Christian.

This is a very strange coalition; but the left wing supported Josef Stalin during most of his time as a totalitarian dictator and supported the Bader Meinhof gang and its associates in the 1960s and '70s. The Muslims feel humiliated by Israel and the US. Europeans feel humiliated by American English being the world's language and the Western culture moving westward ho to America.

The left wing may be anti-Semitic because it is anti-American, while the Islamists may be anti-American because they are anti-Semitic; for both societies anti-Semitism has become fashionable.

The obverse of this phenomenon explains why evangelical America has become so vehemently Zionist.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 17, 2005 6:17 AM