If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck

James Lileks exposes the anti-Semitic impulses behind the Presbyterian Church (USA) decision to divest from Israel:

"But they're not anti-Semites. Heavens, nay. Don't you dare question their philosemitism! No, they looked at the entire world, including countries that lop off your skull if you convert to Presbyterianism, and what did they choose as the object of their ire? A country the size of a potato chip hanging on the edge of a region noted for despotism and barbarity. By some peculiar coincidence, it happens to be full of Jews.

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