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If I am not mistaken (as I so often am) that is a perfect, in fact the classic, example of what's called "Orientalism".
So what the hell do you call a culture, or rather, an ideology, that seeks to return the Jews to their supposed Biblical glory- Futurist?
What do you call an ideology which posits that Jews cannot live fully with anybody else except jews, and must be ruled by a hodge-podge of religio-legal mish-mosh and corruption dispensed, of course only by Jews- post-modernist?
And it's the way it comes so smoothly and greasily out of his mouth, as if he was saying something to be proud of.
Frankly, I'm fighting a war against modernity myself. Every day it gets more modern, I get older and fatter. Please, keep modernity away!
Gee, and what can we say about all those Christian Dominionists, and Rapturists, and Evangelicals? That they are eagerly embracing modernity?
What about all those "social conservatives" in the US? Are they embracing the latest information? And they want to return to a past which only exists in a particulary inane and mawkish subset of made-for-TV melodramas. Now that's really making peace with modernity!