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a remarkable
38,000-word essay that
fills all but nine pages of
the Dec. 30 issue of the Na-
tional Review, the conser-
vative magazine he founded,
William F. Buckley writes
unendingly about anti-
Semitism in America.
Along the way, Mr.
Buckley chooses four case
studies in contemporary an-
ti-Semitism, all of them
regarding the press.
Perhaps the most notable
case study — in light of his
candidacy for the GOP pres-
idential nomination — is
that of Patrick Buchanan,
the syndicated columnist.
Mr. Buckley is unstinting-
ly critical of Mr. Buchanan:
"I find it impossible to de-
fend Pat Buchanan against
the charge that what he did
and said during the period
under examination (the
military build-up for the
Gulf War) amounted to anti-
Semitism, whatever it was
that drove him to say and do
it; most probably an icono-
clastic temperament."
His comments to the
Washington Post about Mr.
Buchanan were much milder
than what he printed:
"If you ask, 'Do I think Pat
Buchanan is an anti-
Semite?,' my answer is is,
`He is not one.' But I think
he's said some anti-Semitic
things."
During the prelude to the
Gulf War, Mr. Buchanan
said that "only two groups
are beating the drums for
war in the Middle East —
the Israeli defense ministry
and its amen corner in the
United States."
Mr. Buchanan named a
quartet in this alleged
"amen corner": Henry Kiss-
inger, columnists A.M.
Rosenthal and Charles
Krauthammer, and former
Defense Department official
Richard Perle.
These four, writes Mr.
Buckley, "have in common
many things. The most con-
spicuous of these is that they
are Jewish."
Mr. Buckley ponders why
Mr. Buchanan did not choose
the equally hawkish Alex-
ander Haig, James J.
Kilpatrick, George Will, and
Frank Gaffney.
"Four Christians," he
notes.
Mr. Buchanan survived
the criticism his columns ig-
nited. "He would not have
done so . . . 10 years ago,"
writes Mr. Buckley. The
Holocaust has become "a

senior citizen, fading away
as the dynamic arbiter of the
nation's moral reflexes . . . If
(this development) intimates
a creeping cultural-political
insensibility to anti-
Semitism, then it is both
wrong and alarming. If it
suggests only that the public
feels free to react against in-
timidation on the subject of
Israel, then it is healthy."
The other case studies in
Mr. Buckley's essay are:
• Joseph Sobran, the Na-
tional Review's critic-at-
large, who was accused in
the mid-1980s of being anti-
Semitic because he had
written that Israel was not a
trustworthy ally and that
the New York Times had en-
dorsed the U.S. military
strike against Libya only be-
cause it served its allegedly
Zionist editorial.
• The liberal weekly, The
Nation, which publishes the
"genuinely and intentional-
ly and derisively anti-
Semitic" views of Gore
Vidal.
• The Dartmouth Review,
the conservative
undergraduate journal that
because a cause celebre
when it used a line from
Mein Kampf on its mast-
head.
Interestingly, Mr. Buckley
states near the beginning of
his essay that he has "some
credentials in the area (of
anti-Semitism), among them
my own father's anti-
Semitism."
He also recalls that four of
his older brothers and sisters
"thought it would be a great
lark one night in 1937 to
burn a cross outside a Jew-
ish resort . . . I was not
among that wretched little
band . . . (and) wept tears of
frustration at being for-
bidden by senior siblings to
go out on that adventure on
the grounds that (at age 9) I
was considered too young."

Moment Attacks
Book Review

It may not rank with Nor-
man Mailer's recent king-
sized fit of pique at the New
York Times book review's
handling of Harlot's Ghost,
his latest opus, but the mea
culpa about a recent book
review in Moment by that
magazine's editor raises
questions about freedom of
speech and an editor's stance
toward what he or she
chooses to publish.
Apparently, editor
Suzanne Singer has severe