Is it "anti-Semitic" to observe that "all Jews share a certain gene like all Basques share a certain gene that distinguishes these from other people"? If you think it is, then you probably think scientific research confirming that assertion is also anti-Semitic. And if you don't like what Thilo Sarrazin, the German politician who made that supposedly inflammatory gene statement, has to say about Islam and immigration (among other things, he has said that "No other religion in Europe makes so many demands. No immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime. No group emphasizes their differences so strongly in public, especially through women’s clothing. In no other religion is the transition to violence, dictatorship and terrorism so fluid."), one of the quickest and most effective ways of silencing his "blasphemy" is to accuse him of Jew-hate.
The gene remark aside, Sarrazin's other musings on Jewry don't seem like the thoughts of an out-and-out Jew-hater either. He has observed, for example, that the Nazis' Final Solution was "an enormous intellectual bloodletting" from which Germany has never recovered - whoa, move over, Ernst Zundel. And he has even been accused of "philo-Semitism" because "he wrongly thinks Jews are more intelligent than others." Clearly he hasn't met some of Toronto's Official Jews.
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