Hitchens on Bennett

Joshua

Jewish law and custom dictates that the law of the country where Jews are living takes precedence over Jewish law where there is a conflict between the two. Jewish law also holds that all human life is of infinite value and that to preserve that life, the Sabbath and even the Day of Atonement may be desecrated (Journal for Halacha & Contemporary Society). Although Jews believe they were chosen by God, this chosenness confers few benefits and imposes many onerous burdens. Indeed, according to the Jewish religion, a good Jew has no more chance of entering heaven than a righteous non-Jew.

Lee Jakeman

Whenever I assert the superiority of Western values, I am called a "racist". Funny, that. Racists used to be people who asserted the superiority of a cetain skin pigmentation. They were completely irrational, just like those socialists and liberals today who in one breath tell us to "celebrate diversity" and then, in the next breath, threaten to prosecute us for pointing out that people are - er - diverse ...

dsquared

A pretty silly analogy for Hitchens to make - of course he does know that plenty of the refugees from Tsarist Russia (many of whom were indeed Jewish) did in fact plant bombs in the UK, loudly demand the violent overthrow of our society etc, etc. They just did so in the name of socialism (which Hitchens supported for a long time and possibly still does) rather than one of the more popular religions. And there was certainly no shortage of Hitchens-figures calling them a "global Bolshevik conspiracy" and setting up all sorts of ethnic stereotypes.