* The Jewish hostility to Trump — not just Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias on the left but also Jonah Goldberg and John Podhoretz, among many others, on the right — is fascinating, because in many ways Trump is a virtual Jew. If you knew nothing about Trump but you heard that a pushy, loudmouthed New York real estate developer with great marketing and publicity skills was running for office, wouldn’t you assume he was Jewish? If you made a list of the top 10 NYC landlords, it would probably be nine Jews and Trump. Trump’s sin, I guess, is having the same nationalistic fervor for the USA that neocons have for Israel.
The article is poorly written but I guess they are really upset. Being non-Jewish, I’m frankly more upset for Tzipi since in my experience women get extremely embarrassed when you indicate that they are giving off a bad odor. That’s not nice.
Anyway, the students took this as blatantly anti-semitic (probably) and linked it to the Nazis, etc. Well, I don’t think that’s quite accurate. Although I like their writing very much, both Schopenhauer and Nietzsche made wisecracks about this supposed special Jewish scent. Schopenhauer used the traditional slur “foetor Judaicus” while Nietzsche, in Anti-Christ, remarked that the early Church fathers were like Eastern Jews(something like “beide ihnen pachnet nicht gut” or something, it’s been 30 years.)
Not sure how metaphysical this “foetor Judaicus” thing is, and not actually asking for extensive exegesis, but you really have to observe that, when a student from a campus organization at America’s top law school affiliated with our nation’s top university is able to ask such a personally (possibly, group directed) offensive question it really is time to re-affirm that American universities became the best in the world after Hitler.
BTW, I haven’t heard of any sanctions against this unnamed student leader, either.
* That’s really very sad and another indication that we are well on the way to idiocracy or worse. Supposedly (and I can, unfortunately, entirely believe it) the questioner (who I’m guessing is some minority type person) claimed that ze did not know of the historical association between Jews and smell (nor probably of anything at all that happened before last week) and was just trying to be impertinent and disrespectful on behalf of oppressed peoples and said “you smell” the way a 1st grader might. Even if this was true, if a white person addressed say Valerie Jarrett in this way, they would not have been afforded anonymity and indeed their ass would be ejected from HLS so fast that it would make their head spin.
