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4. From Hugh Hewitt's Breaking the Durbin Code: "First, Durbin's reference to the Nazis, the Soviet gulag, and Pol Pot's killers was an intentional part of a detailed argument, an argument that equates the killer-prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay with combatants in war, and which asserts that America is acting wrongly and unlawfully vis-à-vis these prisoners. Not only does this undermine the justice of America's cause in the war on terror, it elevates unlawful combatants to the status of legitimate warriors . . . Durbin stands with the Michael Moore left, the Howard Dean attack-America-first caucus, and the international chorus that assigns the responsibility for the jihadists to American overreach in the world."

5. From Eric Pianin's A Senator's Shame: "While Byrd provides the most detailed description of his early involvement with the Klan, conceding that he reflected "the fears and prejudices I had heard throughout my boyhood," the account is not complete. He does not acknowledge the full length of time he spent as a Klan organizer and advocate. Nor does he make any mention of a particularly incendiary letter he wrote in 1945 complaining about efforts to integrate the military -- "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels.""

6. From Edward Alexander's The Democratic Party's anti-Semitism problem: "Outside of the Islamic world, the anti-Semitic upsurge of recent years is mainly a left-wing phenomenon . . . Some have argued that the Democrats' reluctance to criticize the anti-Semitic demagoguery of (Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) can be explained by the fact that they are all blacks, and white liberals believe that blacks are their equals in every sense — except that of being equal."

7. From Uriel Heilman's In rare Jewish appearance, George Soros says Jews and Israel cause anti-Semitism: "There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that," Soros said. "It´s not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti- Semitism as well. I´m critical of those policies" . . . Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called Soros´ comments "obscene" and Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt quipped, ""George Soros does not think Jews should be hated any more than they deserve to be."

8. From Debra Dickerson's Black Anti-Semitism: "Lee Alcorn, president of the Dallas NAACP, told a local radio station: "I think we need to be very suspicious of any kind of partnerships between the Jews at that kind of level, because we know that their interest primarily has to do with money and these kind of things."

9. From Sam Schulman's Will Jewish votes for Dems speed the mainstreaming of anti-Semitic voices?: "On the other hand, the Democrats take the Jewish vote for granted -- while to the standard of the Democratic Party flock a new generation of people who are not only indifferent to the Jewish support for their party --but they are, nearly openly, anti-Semitic in their posture towards Israel."

10. From Jamie Glazov's Symposium: Anti-Semitism - the New Call of the Left: "Arabists and globaphobes are obsessed with "neo-colonialism" and "neo-imperialism" - and throw such epithets around casually to describe both Western trade policies and the Israeli presence in the disputed territories. The shared ideological bond explains why placards equating Sharon with Hitler are now de rigueur at left-wing anti-trade protests - even though many of the people holding them wouldn't know Gaza from Golan."