At yesterday's opening session of the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly, Eric Cantor gave a sobering assessment of anti-Semitic trends across the globe.
From Capital J:
Cantor quoted "Shoah" director Claude Lanzmann wondering when was it "too late" to stop the Holocaust, and listed a number of issues that led him to wonder whether it was becoming "too late" for today's Jewish community
.... "When we allow ourselves to be lulled ourselves into silence when political correctness beckons, it may be too late," said Cantor.
"When we dally and threat and wring our hands but fail to do anything to really stop" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "where are we then?"
"We must answer our enemies' dangerous resurgence with renewed vigilance, lest we invite greater dangers for both Israel and the United States," he said.
"I await your leadership before it it too late," he said.
On a similar note, Cantor also took a whack at Democrats and the Obama Administration in an interview with the Jerusalem Post:
"I have a lot of concerns about what I have seen lately, about the continued desire to try to engage with Iran and about pressure being applied to Israel in terms of concessions in the name of peace."
