I have objections with the column, “Administration’s ‘court Jews’ disgraced themselves” by Dana Milbank (Herald, Aug. 21)
Why are we allowed to say things about Jews that we are not allowed to say about any other race or religion? Why do we hold Jews to standards that we do not hold anyone else to?
Were any African-Americans shamed for not speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement? Would any decent writer call one an “Uncle Tom” for not joining the movement? Of course not. Any that did wouldn’t get printed in a respectable publication. But it’s OK to use the equally derisive term ‘Court Jew’ when referring to Jews who do not please us?
Why is anti-Semitism suddenly a popular cause with the progressives? Were any Jews in the Obama administration publicly shamed for not objecting to Obama’s many anti-Israel actions? Anti-Semitism didn’t suddenly appear with Trump’s election. It’s well documented that anti-Semitism increased under Obama, but the progressives and the media ignored it. It is only interesting now as a club with which to beat Trump.
This isn’t real support; it’s using a valid cause for the purpose of furthering a different cause. And when it is no longer “useful,” fighting anti-Semitism will stop being a cause for progressives.
Milbank says it’s a shanda that his ‘Court Jews’ didn’t object to Trump’s actions. The real shanda is that a fellow Jew wrote this terrible column. And the even bigger shanda is that the Herald printed it.
William Rottenberg
Durango
