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To wit: The disgusting rant from Gustafus above. This is what is unleashed and fertilized when grand conspiracy theories of hidden Jewish power are unleashed.
Dog Whistle Politics exists on both the left and the right. Just as BushCo claims they "never explicitly said Saddam was behind 9/11," the left can and does fall into similar traps that open the door for age-old demonization and hatred.
We're better than that (or at least I hope we are). This is why people on the left choose their words carefully, parsing distinctions between legit criticism of Israel and weasel words that cover for the typical "Protocols of Zion" cabal narratives.
And yes, Protocols was forged in Russia years before Israel ever existed. These narratives live on like viruses, and need only a match to explode into the collective unconscious once again. Many on the left don't even know why they're so convinced it's actually Jewish intellectuals and not the morons Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and Rice, and the usual gang of right-wing tough talking chickenhawk senators like Trent Lott, Tom Delay, Dick Army etc., that led to our invasion of Iraq.
Here's a hint, people: "Jews" are not behind our invasion of Iraq. Stupidity is.
