ANTI-SEMITISM IS A "JEWCY" TOPIC: In response to a review at Jewcy of Minor Poets Hate Everyone, Major Poets Hate The Jews by Michael Weiss, Derbyshire writes:

I think that English antisemitism—which [T. S.] Eliot took up as his own—is the mildest and most harmless variety of the sentiment, and really not worth anyone's bothering about. Certainly it has not stopped Jews flourishing and prospering in England as in no other country but this one.

Marc Steyn believes that Derbyshire is overlooking something:

However, it seems to me that that traditionally mild antisemitism is fast vanishing and being replaced by something much closer to the more virulent Continental forms. The sinister rootless cosmopolitan Jew reviled in Europe was never a big deal in Britain: the Wandering Jew has his work cut out wandering as far afield as the Wandering Englishman. But Israel is another matter.

Remember Tom Paulin?

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