ABSTRACT
To the average American, the mention of anti-Semitism sets off a chain reaction and brings to mind the lurid exposes of John Spivak and the more detailed and effective investigations of John Roy Carlson. Paralleling the efforts to isolate the rabid anti-Semite and to make anti-Semitism synonymous with obscenity, a tendency has developed among American anti-Semites to poke fun at the crackpot by exposing the absurdity of his arguments. So far as the mores of American society are concerned, open identification with anti-Semitic organizations is neither sanctioned nor approved; but anti-Semitic slights and discriminations are obviously sanctioned. It is quite all right to draw a sharp line excluding Jews from important sectors of the economy and from a large domain of social life. The America First movement represents, perhaps, the attempt to form an open alliance between the armchair anti-Semites and their crackpot allies.
