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Guardian and Anti-Semitism

Julie Burchill has resigned as columnist for the (London) Guardian, and as a parting gift, leaves us with two gems. Both columns are worthwhile reads in their entirety; following are excerpts:

In her column last week, Burchill wrote, "Not only do I admire the Guardian, I also find it fun to read, which in a way is more of a compliment. But if there is one issue that has made me feel less loyal to my newspaper over the past year, it has been what I, as a non-Jew, perceive to be a quite striking bias against the state of Israel...

"I don't swallow the modern liberal line that anti-Zionism is entirely different from anti-semitism; the first good, the other bad... The fact that many Gentiles and Arabs are rabidly Judeophobic, while many others are as horrified by Judeophobia as by any other type of racism, makes me believe that anti-semitism/Zionism is not a political position (otherwise the right and the left, the PLO and the KKK, would not be able to unite so uniquely in their hatred), but about how an individual feels about himself."

Yesterday Burchill published another column, picking up where she left off:

"Make no mistake, the Jews are not hated because of Israel; they are hated for their very modernity, mobility, lust for life and love of knowledge. Their most basic toast, "L'chaim!" (To Life!), is a red rag to those who fetishise death because they have failed to take any joy from their life on earth."
posted on 12/07/2003