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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Benjamin Kerstein</title>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens’ Jewish Problem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open secret for years.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.jidaily.com">Jewish Ideas Daily</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The fact that Christopher Hitchens has a problem with the Jews has  been an open secret for years. No one much likes to talk about it, and  for various reasons his journalistic peers have remained silent on the  subject. But it is nonetheless the case, and there is little sense in  denying it.</p>
<p>The sixty-four-year-old Hitchens, a native of Great Britain and a  recently naturalized U.S. citizen, is one of the most widely read and  admired columnists in America, as well as a celebrated author who, in  the words of the <em>New York Times</em>, &#8220;embraces the serious things,  the things that matter: social justice, learning, direct language, the  free play of mind, loyalty, holding public figures to high standards.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hitchens&#8217;s career began on the radical Left, with a strong affinity  for the legacy of the Communist ideologue Leon Trotsky and his  followers. His real gift, however, was not for ideology but for polemic,  and his blistering prose quickly made him a literary celebrity, first  in the pages of Britain&#8217;s <em>New Statesman</em> and then, after he emigrated to America, as a regular columnist at the <em>Nation</em>. Before long, Hitchens&#8217;s colorful opinions and even more colorful public image became fixtures of mainstream publications like <em>Vanity Fair</em> and the <em>Atlantic</em>.</p>
<p>For much of his career, Hitchens was known as a ferocious critic of  American power and American policy. But in the 1990s, with the war in  the Balkans and the long campaign to secure American intervention  against the Serbs, he began a slow turnabout that would come to a head  on September 11, 2001. Following the 9/11 atrocities, and the  conspicuous failure of many of his left-wing comrades to acknowledge the  guilt, and the threat, of radical Islam, Hitchens split from the Left  for good, becoming one of the most vocal and, in conservative quarters,  most prized supporters of the war on terror and American intervention in  Iraq.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://www.jidaily.com/hitchens/e">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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