Two good articles this week combine to explore how reverse-discriminating journalism backfires onto the intellectual classes to create antithetical, anti-Semitic attitudes and activity.

In "What Ails Mainstream Journalism?" writer Alyssa Lappen reveals journalists' malfeasance in failing to adequately research the subject, sources, and suppliers of the information which they integrate into their reporting.

But when it comes to interviewing Muslim community or religious leaders, mainstream reporters are little inclined to submit them to tough or probing questions. Frequently, the U.S. media present leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), or Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as “civil rights” activists, “soft-spoken,” regular guys to be taken at face value, “moderate,” “really respected,” and so on. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=27499

In The Jerusalem Post's, "What Makes a Liberal anti-Semite?" Suzanne Selengut reviews gentile author, Bernard Harrison's book, "The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel and Liberal Opinion"

Guided by the author, one becomes aware of the rhetorical tricks played by those who use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a springboard for covert anti-Jewish statements. Harrison is equipped with a kind of academic lie-detector, able to isolate the ways that the educated and well-spoken fall into a pernicious form of racism.

...today's Left supports any "armed revolutionary movement" which can be seen as a victim of colonialism. Harrison explains how some on the Left implicate Israel - and Diaspora Jews - as the colonial aggressors in a bid to protect their own fragile worldview from notions that threaten their beliefs.

... While this chapter goes far in explaining the current proliferation of anti-Semitic talk among good liberals, it can't explain away the hatred that lies in the human heart. Sadly, even Harrison, a scholar who it would seem prefers logic to simple hunches, warns that we are dealing with "a new version of a once-familiar type of politico-moral hysteria."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879252285&pagename=JPost%2FJPA...