“It's the genteel anti-Semitism of the time. Jews were politely shut out of the country clubs and the higher echelons of WASP culture.”
Dan Wackerman
“Those who claim I hate Jews must explain why I bow to Carl Sagan & Christopher Hitchens. What I hate is incomprehensible greed and what I begrudge is each breath a sociopath takes.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.”
Daniel Barenboim
“Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.”
Tony Palmer
“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
William Howard Taft
“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.”
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
“There is no more anti-Semitism on the state level, as we saw in Soviet times, but instead we have a lot of freedom for anti-Semitic groups in Russia, and the incident yesterday was one of its manifestations.”
Yitzhak Kogan
