This Sunday, CAMERA, the Committe for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, is holding a conference about Jewish defamers of Israel. Their word, defame. Cynthia Ozick will be there, so will Alvin Rosenfeld, who wrote the paper for the AJC last year on anti-Semitic Jews criticizing Israel. Should be fun.
Presumably Tony Judt, Norman G. Finkelstein, and Noam Chomsky will be targets of the panel, not to mention non-Jews Walt and Mearsheimer, and it is worth remembering that any time Judt has spoken or tried to speak in the last year, or Jimmy Carter, or John Mearsheimer, people in the CAMERA camp demand that there be "context." That an audience not be limited to Judt’s views; that "someone from the other side" will get to answer him. Fairness. Balance. Context.
Will CAMERA provide any context at their conference this weekend? Will a Jewish "defamer" be invited to make his case so that the conference is not unbalanced?
(I hope not. I don’t believe in "context." I think people should express their views and the devil take the hind-most.)
