Half of Europeans Believe Jews Have Dual Loyalty

Haaretz reports that half of Europeans believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country. Abe Foxman says this shows the rise of traditional anti-semitic stereotype, including the belief that Jews control U.S. foreign policy. Similar to the claim against Walt and Mearsheimer put forward at Yivo last month, that the two scholars are antisemites. I of course think these ideas are part of a new reality. It’s time for universalist Jews to push thru the wall of orthodoxy and, in the free spirit of Norman Mailer, who said that Hitler had caused Jewry to huddle around one question, "Is it good for the Jews?" challenge the construction of Jewish identity, in this age of unprecedented Jewish social, economic, and political power…