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Disturbing article in The Chronicle, Duke University's newspaper.

"The Jews"
by Philip Kurian

"It is well known that Jews constitute the most privileged “minority” group in this country... After World War II, overt anti-Semitism gradually subsided, in part because of American response to Hitler’s murderous regime, but largely due to Jewish association with whiteness and the privileges white skin affords. In short, Jews can renounce their difference by taking off the yarmulke. Clearly, this is not a luxury enjoyed by all minority groups...

"What’s worst is that the “Holocaust Industry” uses its influence to stifle, not enhance, the Israeli-Palestinian debate, simultaneously belittling the real struggles for socioeconomic and political equality faced, most notably, by black Americans. As the world-renowned historian John Hope Franklin mentions, the U.S. decision to authorize federal funding of a holocaust memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—hallowed ground otherwise reserved for commemorating U.S. history—camouflages this nation’s guilt in our own crimes against humanity: the Native American genocide and slavery."

There's more, but that's enough to quote. I just can't believe that it was actually printed. To name an article "The Jews" and then fill it with such blatant anti-Semitism... He twists everything around and puts down Jews because of the color (or lack of color) of their skin. How's that for irony?

On a positive, unrelated, note, game 7 was amazing & the Red Sox are going to the World Series!! Awesome...