Breitbart editor Stephen Bannon has found
a prominent defender in former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz thinks that because accusations of anti-Semitism are so serious, they should be only be lodged
extremely cautiously. As he says:
I think we have to be very careful before we accuse any particular individual of being an anti-Semite….
He has been supportive of Israel…. But it is not legitimate to call somebody an anti-Semite because you might disagree with their policies.
Those Who Have Been Very Carefully And Responsibly Deemed Anti-Semites By Alan Dershowitz
Once again, one would hesitate to condemn Steve Bannon without evidence. It would be unfair to call him an anti-Semite merely because his website defends using “Shlomo Shekelburg” caricatures, his tech editor says that “Jews run everything,” his movement’s intellectual influences unanimously think Jews are human poison, and his ex-wife flatly insists he doesn’t like Jews. It would be extremely unfair to leap to conclusions, because allegations of anti-Semitism should never be made merely for reasons of political convenience.
Fortunately, Alan Dershowitz always exercises responsibility when it comes to determining who is and isn’t an anti-Semite. He would not, after all, wish to be careless.
