Old World Fanaticism at Faneuil Hall

Nationally known attorney Alan Dershowitz feared for his physical safety as he exited Faneuil Hall in Boston recently after receiving a justice award from the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, he writes in the Israeli Insider. As excerpted in today's Washington Times, Dershowitz says: "[T]he sign carriers were shouting epithets at me that crossed the line from civility to bigotry. 'Dershowitz and Hitler, just the same, the only difference is the name.' The sin that ... warranted this comparison between me and the man who murdered dozens of my family members was my support for Israel. ... If a dozen Boston police were not protecting me, I have little doubt I would have been physically attacked. Their eyes were ablaze with fanatical zeal." It matters not to such thugs that Dershowitz is famously liberal; their hatred knows no political bounds. As with their kindred spirits, the terrorists in Madrid and across the globe, hatred is the central feature of their sick and evil worldview.