HOW ANTI-SEMITIC IS W?

Philip Weiss asks the unasked question in the current New York Observer. The answer is: probably not as anti-Semitic as Phil Weiss. But it is interesting, is it not, that there are no Jews in W’s cabinet. (No homos either, closeted or otherwise so far as I can tell.) Weiss wonders whether this stems from W’s notoriously hostile reaction to the meritocratic elitists – read Jews – at Yale. To my mind, it’s a sensibility thing. Some goyim just don’t get it: Jewish humor, learning, ambition, wit, intellect, and so on. Bush is clearly one of those types. He’s uncomfortable around people with ‘ideas.’ He can sniff out condescension like a beagle near a McDonalds wrapper on the sidewalk. He’s not an ideologue, like Thatcher or Reagan, who both adored Jews and surrounded themselves with them. He’s more at home with practical types. I bet he’d get along better with Israelis than American Jews, for example. Does that make him anti-Semitic? Surely not. Rather he’s un-Semitic. He interacts with Jews the way some homosexuals interact with women: they might as well not exist. This could be a problem when he needs some intellectual support from the ideological press. But I have a feeling he won’t need much. There won’t be much ideological in the next four years to support.