TOBY PETZOLD

Here’s how the New York Times reports today’s developments in the case against the miserable anti-Semite Jimmy Carter (emphases mine):

ATLANTA, Jan. 11 — Fourteen of the city’s business and civic leaders resigned from the Carter Center’s advisory board on Thursday to protest former President Jimmy Carter’s recent criticisms of Israel and American Jewish political power.

Their joint letter of resignation denounced Mr. Carter’s best-selling book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” for its criticisms of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The letter also took issue with comments Mr. Carter has made suggesting that Israel’s supporters in the United States are using their power to stifle debate on the issue.

“It seems you have turned to a world of advocacy, even malicious advocacy,” the letter said. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.”

The 14 who resigned were members of the center’s board of councilors, a group of more than 200 local leaders who act as ambassadors and fund-raisers for the center but do not determine its policy or direct its operations.

Among the letter signers were Michael Coles, the chief executive of the Caribou Coffee Company; William B. Schwartz Jr., the ambassador to the Bahamas during Mr. Carter’s presidency; Liane Levetan, a former chief executive of DeKalb County, Ga.; and S. Stephen Selig III, who served as national finance chairman for the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee.

Yeah, but just look at those names. What do you want they should do?

While waiting for a movie to start a few doors down this afternoon, I went into a Borders bookstore and straight over to a copy of Jimmy Carter’s latest pro-Palestinian excretions, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

I was interested in looking over the chronology that comes at the beginning of the book because I had read that it is as manipulative and dishonest as the author himself.

You may be certain of that.

After a couple of minutes poring over those few pages, it was clear that Carter’s chronology is so rife with gaps and decontextualized “facts” as to be worse than worthless. After all, one cannot seriously compile a chronology of the history of the Middle East or of the relationship between Jews and Muslims or of any other similarly ancient and complex story in the space of fewer than a dozen generously-spaced pages —so why would one even attempt it?

Maybe it’s to fool the kind of shitforbrains partisans that would actually spend money on his garbage into thinking that the book they’re reading is actually a work of scholarship or historical explication.

It is not. It is a work of propaganda to be praised by and shared among the like-minded.

Jimmy Carter is a wretched anti-Semite. The only reason why he is not more widely regarded as such is because he enjoys the protections of the Leftist press in this country who routinely bury the cat turds of his wisdom lest they be more fully sniffed out by the American People.