What happens when a "progressive" preaches Holocaust denial in the name of "anti-Zionism"? America is about to find out.
There are people who will accept any damn thing as long as it's couched in the rhetoric of anti-Zionism. The extreme case of the phenomenon is Gilad Atzmon, a self-described leftist who just happens to think that the gas chambers of Auschwitz were likely a Jewish lie. Sorry, a "Zionist" lie. See? He's not an anti-Semite, he only hates "Zionists" -- like the ones who claim that Hitler killed six million Jews.
And, sadly, there are some people -- fortunately quite few, but not zero -- who are ready to accept Holocaust denial as long as it's packaged as a kind of "anti-Zionism." Hot on the heels of the publication of a bucket of antisemitic bilge in book form, he's visiting the US from his home in the UK, ready to spread his peculiar version of leftism.
More after the arabesque.