I m not an anti-Semite; I never have been; and I don t have much time for anti-Semites. I ve written a couple of million words of opinion commentary this past thirty years, all of it archived on my website, and I defy you to find any evidence of anti-Semitism in it anywhere.
However, I ve turned against the word philosemite, for reasons I ve explained elsewhere. Basically, it s patronizing. If pressed on the issue, I call myself an anti-anti-Semite. I cherish my Jewish friends, and I have publicly and again, I think, more than once expressed gratitude in print for the positive contribution Jews have made to our civilization, way out of proportion to their numbers.