Slowly, They Turn

by Phyllis Chesler  •  September 21, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/2007/09/slowly-they-turn

The days turn into years, the years into centuries. People slowly turn as well from complete, outraged denial to gradual, grudging admission. Of course, no one wants to give up their illusions and the mainstream media still do not print the truth about racism--if it is racism against Jews. As we all know, the western media will go on and on and on about racism against Muslims, Arabs, and all peoples of color whose countries have formerly been colonized.

Four years and two months later, after dumping on my 2002 book "The New Anti-Semitism," the Washington Post has just now allowed at least one voice to rebut the Big Lie that there is no anti-Semitism, that to suggest that Jew-hatred is dangerously rising in the world and that anti-Zionism is also the "new" anti-Semitism, is alarmist, misleading, undocumented, etc. Today's op-ed piece, which tackles only two of the false allegations that Walt-Mearsheimer make in their just published Farrar, Strauss title (for which they received $850,000) is here.

The Washington Post reviewed my book about anti-Semitism four years ago on August 3 of 2003. It was a very negative review. But, unlike the NY Times, they at least reviewed it. Perhaps they felt they "had" to given that they gave my tenth book (2002) a front page review in their Book Review. But the reviewer they chose this time was Samuel G. Freedman. I believe he writes regularly for the New York Times. Oh, he did not like what I wrote or how I wrote it. It is true that I wrote the book in white heat and very quickly but the historical moment drove me to speak out quickly and with passion. I stand by my perspective and by all the points that I made while writing it in 2002.

CNN's Judy Woodruff used the Washington Post review to badger me on air in the first, last, and only interview I was allowed in the left-mainstream media. (However, as I left the studio, several men behind the cameras came out to "shake my hand." It was actually very moving.) And Woodruff went on to narrate the voice over for a documentary about anti-Semitism.

So, is the West waking up? Is this single op-ed piece in the Washington Post going to combat the juggernaut of Big Lie propaganda against Israel and Jews that has gathered a truly epic force?

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