Last year, Bret Stephens wrote in Opinion Journal, "How do you spot an anti-Semite? Ask about Israel".

In the New York Sun today, Ryan Sager writes, "For all those getting really excited about anti-war, libertarian Republican Ron Paul, it's worth noting that he's pretty racist and also an anti-Semite":

The Houston Chronicle story linked above contains quotes from a newsletter Mr. Paul put out in the 1980s and 1990s. It includes quotes referring to blacks as crime-prone and "fleet-footed."

Mr. Paul also wrote that "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

If you actually listen to more authentic voices than bin Laden’s — both democratic activists and Islamist bad guys — you’ll find that one of the real reasons “they hate us” is that we support their corrupt rulers and dictators (in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere). Ron Paul’s vision of foreign policy would do nothing to dissuade that impression, because he wants to be “friends” with everybody, starting with those very same dictators. Such friendship would have led to Saddam having nukes in the 1990s and would, if implemented today, lead to Iran having them any minute now. More to the point, we were right to reverse Saddam’s aggression in 1991. We were wrong not to take out Saddam back then. And we were right to keep Saddam contained as much as we could. But not according to Paul.