Anti-Semitism does not consist simply of shooting up Jewish day care centers or refusing to admit Jews to your country club. It is an ideology--an interlocked set of principles and prejudices--in which certain nefarious traits or practices are ascribed to Jews as a people, even when few Jews exhibit those traits or when other people engage in those practices. So, Buchanan, in criticizing former President George Bush's foreign policy, points to the ominous-sounding "Wolfowitz Memorandum" (by former Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz) as its central manifesto. In attacking proponents of a global role for the United States, he singles out Ben Wattenberg, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, and Robert Kagan. He evokes fondly not only Lindbergh but also Henry Ford, a notorious anti-Semite, whom he refers to as an "American industrialist" who was unfairly branded a fascist. Even if he had bemoaned "Jewish influence" in American policymaking for just one paragraph, this would be ugly, but he goes on for several pages, citing with approval anti-Semitic statements made by George Kennan, William Fulbright ("Israel controls the Senate"), and others.
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