I was<\/em> surprised, though, to get a long,vicious email in my Inbox from someone apparently enraged by the blog’s title.\u00a0 This person’s screed was the same illogical slumgullion you see with all kinds of haters, while reading as if it were checking items off a list from Anti-Semitism for Dummies<\/em>.\u00a0 In other words, vile, but totally unoriginal and cookie-cutter.<\/p>\n Naturally it started off by saying that Israel was the problem because of its treatment of Palestinians.\u00a0 This is classic post-war anti-Semitism because it blames all Jews everywhere for every action of every Israeli government.\u00a0 Are Americans responsible for the drone strikes deaths in Yemen and Pakistan? The half million dead<\/a> in Iraq since the U.S. invasion?<\/p>\n As you might might expect, the ribbon on the package was the equation of\u00a0 Israelis with Nazis.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 All Jews = Israelis = Nazis.\u00a0 That explains everything.\u00a0 But the writer wasn’t done.\u00a0 There was more venom to spew.\u00a0 The other ridiculous charge was that Jews were misusing the Holocaust to their own ends and playing the victim.\u00a0 Charming, no?\u00a0 Finally it slid into some Old School Jew-hatred by labeling Jews as repulsive, arrogant, and unbearably cruel.<\/p>\n The email reeked of contempt, disgust, and brutality.\u00a0 A psychologist might see a writer with tremendous shame issues coping with that shame by expressing grotesque superiority over others.\u00a0 If you click the link to the original blog you’ll find comments just as vicious. These people clearly aren’t at all troubled by going public with their Jew-hatred, unlike the person who sent me the email.\u00a0 Feel free to guess why my correspondent wanted to write privately.<\/p>\n I started writing this blog on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and was moved to finish it because of the shootings in Copenhagen.\u00a0 King said that “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 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<\/a>By the time the blog had received close to 800 Likes, Facebook Shares, and shares on Twitter (it eventually more than doubled that), it also got plenty of vicious response, too.\u00a0 No surprise, there.\u00a0 People seem completely unashamed to parade their full range of prejudices on line, especially on places like The Huffington Post responses boards.<\/p>\n![\"Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream_0\"](\"http:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream_0-300x213.jpg\")
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