Monday, September 10, 2012

Using "Jew-washing"

First used by Gerald Steinberg and  Yitzhak Santis in late July.  Commented on philologically.  Criticized.  And again here.

It's "Jew-washing",

when Jews are brought forward by non-Jewish organizations in order to cover up charges of anti-Semitism.

Or, of course, when these Jews volunteer their services.

My semantic observation. Another comment of mine.

My attempt at being a Safire-type language maven.

And now in the major mainstream media:

...not that she is an anti-Semite, but that she is the useful idiot of anti-Semites, and that she allows them to "Jew-wash" their genocidal hatreds with her good name.

via Richard Landes and Benjamin Weinthal, 
Wall Street Journal September 9, 2012

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P.S.

Another attempt at being a language maven:




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Again:

Sept.13,
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