Some of My Best Friends Are Juice

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“The simple answer is that you the Jews are real motherf----- bastards,” he wrote in an email to Richard Benkin, a human rights activist based in Chicago.

“You guys are simply assholes ... Stop playing the bloody victim games.”

Asked about the emails, Mr Maqsood initially defended his right to a private argument. “Is it anything wrong to have a private conversation? That is not my public view ... I am not an anti-Semite at all. I have many Jewish friends.”

But late yesterday Mr Maqsood apologised and withdrew the remarks. “I am ashamed to say they were made at a time when I was intoxicated and angry,” he said. “Of course, there is no excuse for such remarks.”
 — h/t Norman Geras

Yes, of course, no excuse whatsoever, except for the usual one — to follow in the footsteps of high-profile bigots, right down to the well-worn talking points: "private conversation"; "not my public view"; and the classic, "I have many Jewish friends". I seem to recall similar crap oozing from the hung-over anti-Semite Mel Gibson.

I wonder, though, if his "I am not an anti-Semite at all" is that asshole's "public view" or the view he shares with his fellow motherf*ckers.