Michael Lumish
Mike Lumish is a teacher, a recent PhD in American History, a resident of San Francisco, a liberal, and until recently a Democrat, who is thoroughly disgusted with the anti-Zionism and Israel Hatred promoted by the Left... He also tends to smoke too much.
Youtube pulled the original of this video. This version has subtitles en Español. I can live with it.
There’s a tendency on the Left to fling around charges of racism like they’re confetti. This is rather odd because while accusations of racism drop from the leftist sky like rain, charges of anti-Semitism are usually met with contempt, as we’ve seen with the recent Helen Thomas nonsense. In other words, on the Left, or, at least, the Hard-Left, it is perfectly fine to fling around charges of racism in all directions, but if you point out the obvious, that Helen Thomas’s comment was anti-Semitic, this makes you an enemy of all things Good, True, and Right. It’s one of the anti-Israel / anti-Jewish double standards that much of the Left operates within.
If people had told me a year or two ago that I would be participating on a blog associated with David Horowitz, I would have told them that they were out of their bleeding minds. I’m a liberal, for chrissake. I just spent almost the last ten years hatin’ on the Bush administration, marching against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, phone banking for MoveOn.org, donating money to the Gore campaign, the Kerry campaign, the Obama campaign. I am in favor of a woman’s right to choose, in favor of Gay rights, in favor of governmental regulation of polluting industries, and would prefer to see a more equitable distribution of wealth via the tax code. Heck, I even live in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, the bluest neighborhood in the bluest city of a dominantly blue state.
And, yet, here I am.
