Ann Coulter and Jews

This is part of the Left's effort to demonized the Right. I happen to like Ann Coulter. She is a polemicist and is good at what she does. I make no apologies for her and will not distance myself from her.

This is what she said: Ann Coulter Donny Deutsch Jews Perfected The Big Idea


What she said is that Christians are "perfected" Jews. It happens to be what Christians believe; that is the reason Christ came to earth.

You can be offended, but that means that (a) you are offended by the New Testament, and (b) you have never considered the real meaning of Christianity.

But the good news is that Jews are defending Coulter. Dennis Prager for one.
From the Modern Conservative:

Jews defending Coulter

Hearing Dennis Prager defend Ann Coulter on his radio show today was not entirely unexpected, given Dennis's overall clarity of thought and intellectual honesty. I think he made a very good argument on her behalf. Her statement was not thought through for possible impact. (What does she ever say that is?) It was counter-productive, and the overall result is, whatever she meant to say, a net-negative for a bunch of issues we conservatives care about. But, as Prager astutely pointed out, her statement certainly wasn't what it's being made out to be.

Prager's defense was correct and pleasing to hear, but it was also to be expected from him. What I more enjoyed was when I received an email from a friend and colleague, a Jewish woman who echoed Prager's points and his defense of Coulter. Here is that email, reprinted with permission:


Dennis Prager on Ann Coulter's Remark on the "Perfection of Jews"

Prager said something very smart about this situation during his morning show today. He stated that there was nothing anti-Semitic about wishing that Jews would become Christians. We all wish that people would come around to our points of view on most everything. This is human nature. We all hold our beliefs and values to be ideal and want others to agree and validate our positions. Dennis pointed out that much of the secular Left wants everyone to abandon religion and become part of the secular Left and that no one in the media or on the Left seems to have a problem with this. The secular Left even goes to the level of demeaning and deriding religious people as intellectually inferior and less worldly. Prager mentioned as another example that, although Jews don't proselytize, most Jews want everyone to be ethical monotheists or adhere to a belief in one G-d under a common set of ethical precepts. Basically, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with feeling your views are superior and wanting other people to believe as you do as long as you aren't using violence or being coercive in some way. (Exactly what the Islamists are trying to do).

Also, Prager pointedly remarked that the Left is focusing on this as a 'virulently anti-Semitic' remark while it ignores real anti-Semitism a la Carter, Mearsheimer and Walt, Ahmadinejad, etc. and how dangerous this is for Jews. To focus on an innocuous comment, which is essentially a wish, at the current level of hysteria, minimizes and obfuscates genuine expressions of Jew hatred.