Pootergeek Damian Counsell is definitely not a Frontpagemag-esque liar. When he says that he goes through his life (as a Brit in Britain) with colleagues and acquaintances exuding large doses of Yank-hatred and antisemitism, I believe him.
The anti-Americanism thing has been done to death on his site. But on the antisemitism… I’m always willing to talk politics with people, I meet quite a lot of people, I don’t come across as a PC shrinking violet, and nobody British-born and under 50 has ever expressed antisemitic views to me. Anti-Zionist perhaps, but even then not on the ‘Israel is a pirate state and should be destroyed and the Jews pushed into the sea’ level – the very worst tends to be supporting the Right to Return, and even that’s mostly among people who don’t really get what the Right to Return would do.
So am I incredibly lucky in my choice of acquaintances, or is Damien accidentally attending neo-Nazi meetings (in some plot almost worthy of a bad sitcom)?