I started using the words "dual loyalty" about a year and a half ago. Wondered what door I'd pushed open. Now Commentary's Noah Pollak has accused The American Conservative of "un-American" language over a reference to Israel's "fifth column," and Scott McConnell has hit back, saying Commentary is beginning to lose a power struggle in Jewish intellectual life.
There is a deeper motive to Pollak’s attack. A monumental sea change is
underway in the American Jewish community. For many years, liberal Jews
more or less let AIPAC or Commentary or The New Republic
speak for them on the issues of Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East.
That’s over. J Street has emerged as a new pro-peace PAC to challenge
AIPAC. It opposes the war with Iran that Pollak would like to start. So
do dozens of important bloggers—M.J. Rosenberg, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Philip Weiss, Tony Karon, Josh Marshall, and David Bromwich, to name a few. Joe Klein, the popular Time writer has been challenging
Freeman’s attackers. Taken together, these writers are challenging the
entire Likudnik ideological complex that stretches from Jerusalem to
the offices of Commentary and The Weekly Standard.
McConnell also cites this staggeringly-fair piece in US News, which credits Chas Freeman's charge that the Israel lobby did him in.
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This is a comment on one of Richard's comments in the last thread which has been ruined (inadvertently) by an open tag.
Does anyone know how to fix the problem?
I have tried including a closing tag at the start of a subsequent comment but it doesn't work.
@ Richard "…a Jew, a Zionist Jew, is suspect at all on the basis of their Judaism…"
It's not about Jewishness, it's about Zionishness!
"…my talented and intelligent Jewish children."
That seems like a perfectly ordinary thing to say, I also like to think that my children are "talented and intelligent", but I must warn you Richard that you are in danger of assuming the mantle of anti-semitism. No really, according to Uri Avnery, "Many people around the world believe in the anti-Semitic myth that we Jews are immensely clever, and that all our actions prove our diabolical cunning."
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1235859721/
Things are bad when even an honest supporter of some Israeli actions like Ricard can innocently slip over the anti-semitic line.
"…my talented and intelligent Jewish children."
That's it Richard, why don't you just roll out the red carpet and leave a glass milk and cookies for the Evil Eye?
Bring your eye. We know how to squish it.
Don't forget that Josh Marshall is a self-described Zionist, one who takes great offense when Israeli racism is pointed out to him. Furthermore, he was a big supporter of the Iraq war. In short, his loyalty is more than suspect.
Chas Freeman forced by Israel Lobbies to withdraw from NIC
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=104675
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