http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13004 Naomi Klein: anti-Semitism pays political dividends to Sharon and so it must be checked.
For Sharon, Jewish fear is a guarantee that his power will go unchecked, granting him the impunity needed to do the unthinkable: send troops into the Palestinian Authority's education ministry to steal and destroy records; bury children alive in their homes; block ambulances from getting to the dying.
This is an extraordinary piece, especially for a Klein. The facade of a synagogue near her house was “just badly scarred by a suspicious fire”; the tragedy (and thus the reason why the globalisation movement should condemn anti-Semitism) is not that it was attacked, but that the attack led to a sign on the door that read, “Support Israel—now more than ever.” (I am also amused by the “just.”) 00:37