In a typical piece he posted today on his site, Mondoweiss, curiously lauded hate-blogger Philip Weiss again engaged in his favorite activity: Jew-counting. For the uninitiated, I first explored this topic last week, in a chronicle of some of Weiss and his fellow writers' most choice offerings. Weiss uses the fact that he was at least born Jewish (I don't know whether he practices or not) to give himself the leeway to descend into anti-Semitic memes for the purpose of vilifying Israel and her supporters. Weiss' apologists then fall back on the predictable refrain of either his being Jewish precludes his using anti-Semitism, or that he's being unfairly labeled an anti-Semite for mere criticism of Israel and/or Zionism.
His preferred method is Jew-counting, which is the practice of identifying and singling-out Jews based on their Jewishness. Nixon famously did this with Fred Malek during the Pentagon Papers episode, and Weiss shamelessly repeats the practice, and does so unapologetically.
As you'll see in both the previous diary and his latest offerings, Weiss has removed any doubt about his willingness to use real anti-Semitism under the cloak of criticism.
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