As someone who’s unmistakably Jewish in person, but lacks a particularly Jewish last name, I especially enjoy blogging about Israel and getting called a Jew-hater in the comments. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a Heeb

Don’t sell yourself short sister, Winant pings my Jewdar.

Washington insiders have long known that Thomas was no fan of the Jewish state. But to the bulk of the public, Thomas was a harmless, prickly/cuddly, groundbreaking old lady, a sort of inverted Betty White, not a simmering font of anti-Israel sentiment.

And they feel largely removed from their parents’ paranoia, that postwar, tribal feeling that Israel was a necessary refuge because there would always be people who hated the Jews.

Here’s a good example of jewish “post-racial rhetoric” – while jews sniff out and excoriate Whites for any situation in which too many of us do anything in our interests, the “gift” Weiss is celebrating here is for “the jews” strengthening their connections and tribal feelings.

Mainstream politicians, civic leaders, university presidents and others in this country routinely express their support for Israel as a Jewish state, despite the fact that such a state only could have been created in a multicultural land by ethnically cleansing it of as many non-Jews as possible. Today, Israel is only able to maintain its Jewish identity because it has established an apartheid regime, both in the occupied territories and within its own borders, and because it continues to reject the Palestinian right of return.

Where was the outrage in 1983 when Israeli Gen. Rafael Eitan looked forward to the day that Jews had fully settled the land, because then “all the Arabs will be able to do about it is scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”? Or when Alan Dershowitz suggested in 2002 that Israel summarily empty and then bulldoze an entire Palestinian village as a punitive measure each time it was attacked? Or when New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman claimed in 2006 to have discovered a “pathology” that caused some Arabs to “hate others more than they love their own kids”? Or when Avigdor Lieberman (who now serves as Israel’s foreign minister) said in 2004 that Palestinian citizens of Israel should “take their bundles and get lost”? Or when Israeli professor Arnon Sofer, one of the country’s leading demographic alarmists, said that to preserve the Jewish state, Israel should pull out of Gaza, though that would require Israel to remain at the border and “kill, and kill, and kill, all day, every day”?