November 9, 2002

A.S. Byatt reviews the new Terry Pratchett novel Night Watch, which explores the early career of Lord Captain Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Night Watch during his time as a new recruit. 9:29:32 PM

Hanna Rosin writes in Slate.com of how anti-Zionism on university campuses, such as anti-Israel divestment campaigns is really just warmed over anti-Western believes mixed in with anti-Semitism. The reader’s forum on the article is littered with comments of the sort; "Arabs cannot be anti-Semites still they are Semites also" or "since the campaigns are not anti-Semitism since they are not against Arabs". My suggestion for morons who make these comments is to 1) check a dictionary or check the history of the word 2) replace the word anti-Semitic with hating Jews and read the article again 1:35:21 PM