For a long time, Joe Sobran wrote for National Review. Then he was booted out by William F. Buckley who agreed with Sobran’s critics that Sobran was an anti-Semite. Sobran and his supporters have long decried that decision as completely unfair. But in a recent column about Israel (a country which Sobran appears at times to be obssessed about), Sobran writes,
Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review has summed up the situation in one pithy sentence: “The truth is that if we held Israel to the same standards that we apply to Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, U.S. bombers and missiles would be blasting Tel Aviv, and weÂ’d be putting Israeli prime minister Sharon behind bars for war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
The Institute for Historical Review is an anti-Semitic organization dedicated to Holocaust revisionism. Weber himself has written that there is no evidence that Jews were mass murdered at Treblinka and that, in fact, the camp was used as a transit camp.
For someone who insists he is not an anti-Semite, Sobran keeps fairly odd company.