Jim, have you ever seen Kentucky Fried Movie? There's a wonderful scene–I can't find the clip online–where two political pundits are debating. One starts by making all of these very intelligent points and it quickly descends until the second pundit throws up her middle finger and says something like, "well, Bob, you can just sit on this a rotate!" Yup, if you've never seen this movie and don't mind utter insanity, go for it (although it is dated now).

Olson Johnson: "Ah, blow it out your ass, Howard."

All of this said, they put out academic works that are meant to delegitimize Israel and Jews, so they do make an effort, albeit a weak one in my own opinion, to put on the airs of a genuine academic organization.

Just picked up another book on the subject:

Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate

I'm interested in delving deeper into the early church's anti-Semitic roots.

I'll get the one on Islam when the price goes down.

I would describe him as Orde Wingate with a pen. BTW, Hay's 2nd wife was Wingate's mother in law.

The book was recommended to me by a good friend, who was assigned the book as part of his studies on the history of anti-Semitism when he was in university in the late 70's.

It is an easy read in its form – not in its content.

As I've said, atheists have killed more people in the 20th century that all of the theists for all of history. A totalitarian country is simply a religious dictatorship, without the limits that religion places on the real ones. Do you know that in the U.S.S.R. there were certain parts of Marx you weren't supposed to talk about, because they were problematic? Sound familar? (Source: Mark Ya. Azbel's book "Refusenik".)