in that last post with the suggestion that that AIPAC friend of Larry Summers is under some journalistic obligation to declare her religion, Jewish. Yes, too far, bad boy. But I think part of the problem here is that Jewish identity has been declared to be coextensive with Zionism, by the likes of the AJC, and there's bullying when anyone strays off the reservation, and blacklisting, and meanwhile the ardent Zionists aren't wearing their uniforms in public. Which leaves Americans mystified. It is completely licit for the Nightly News on NBC to talk about the Christian groups that got behind the anti-gay-marriage initiative in California–when I'm sure there are many Christians who were for gay marriage. But when it comes to Rahm Emanuel's Zionism, mum's the word, Howard Fineman and Willie Brown go on and on about Emanuel's policy strengths on Hardball without a word about his Israel-ness, and then you wonder, Well is Fineman in the tank too? Not long ago I learned that Scooter-Libby-trial figure Matt Cooper, formerly of Time Magazine, now of Portfolio, had written that his paternal grandparents were "fervent Zionists." Matt's a nice guy. I asked him if he's a Zionist and if so, how it has affected his journalism. I haven't heard from him. The neocons were even less straightforward, leading Stephen Sniegoski to describe them as a "cabal," and Jacob Heilbrunn also used the c-word. Jews make this a Jewish issue, rather than a Zionist one, when they insist on the congruence of the two. When Larry Summers calls an Israel-apartheid divestment initiative anti-semitic. Back to him again.
