On Tuesday morning, the paper published “The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent,’” an op-ed by Ruth Wisse. Wisse, a Harvard professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, argued that Perkins’ analogy had more to it than initially appeared, and not only in the fact that an attack on America’s wealthy inevitably targets Jews. Wisse said that “stoking class envy” is a common tactic of “negative” movements, of which anti-Semitism is the most virulent, and drew a parallel between class-based rhetoric and anti-Zionist sentiment on the left.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:26:29 +0000
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