{"id":95768,"date":"2016-05-12T07:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95768"},"modified":"2019-06-21T08:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:12:20","slug":"cathy-youngs-blood-libel-against-ann-coulter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95768","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Young\u2019s Blood Libel* Against Ann Coulter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilana Mercer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’m Jewish, with all the baggage that entails (truncated family tree, etc.). But according to Cathy Young’s poorly reasoned and badly written hodgepodge, “Ann Coulter\u2019s Anti-Semitism Runs Deeper Than You Know,”<\/a> I, too, would qualify as anti-Semitic for questioning liberal Jews (that includes practically ALL so-called conservatives): They insist that while Palestinians have no right of return to Israel (agreed); the world has a “global Right of Return to the US.” <\/p>\n

As I put it in “American Rabbis For Israel First” <\/a>(August 8, 2014<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

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Ask any left-liberal American Jew if he supports a “Right of Return” to Israel proper for every self-styled Palestinian refugee, and he’ll likely recoil: “Are you meshuga? Never! That’s a euphemism for Israel’s demise.” The very thing he rejects for Israel, the liberal Jew is inclined to champion for America: a global right of return to the US for citizens of the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In “American Rabbis For Israel First”<\/a> and, before that, on October 1 2010<\/strong>, in “Mass Immigration ‘End Of Days’ Scenario,”<\/a> I suggested the apparently anti-Semitic (because logical?) notion that “mass immigration into America be looked at as a global ‘right of return’”:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Friends of Israel in America are unequivocal in standing up for that country’s right to retain its Jewish identity. What would become of that identity if all self-styled Arab refugees were to be granted the so-called right of return? Hatched by Israel’s enemies, this scheme will see millions of such refugees granted the right to immigrate to Israel proper, where they will overwhelm the Jewish majority. Friends of Israel know that Jews must remain numerically preponderant in the Jewish state if the prosperous, progressive nature of the country and its liberal institutions is to endure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now Young accuses Ms. Coulter of the thought crime for which I’ve long been guilty, too, because Ann wrote the following in Adios <\/em>(2015):<\/p>\n

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A useful meme for for the unitiated. pic.twitter.com\/rKkXTYQgLw<\/a><\/p>\n

— TheRightStuff (@ThaRightStuff) July 3, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n