I did a clubfooted post yesterday trying to connect the journalistic exposure of Larry Summers to the exposure of the Israel lobby. Here's what I was trying to say:
One of the reasons I've felt orphaned in the last few years is that There used to be a great Jewish tradition of Exposure and Investigation and Humorous Contumely. Lenny Bruce to Sy Hersh. But because of Dershowitz and Jeffrey Goldberg and the claims of ethnocentrism, this Tradition was Banned by the Zionist enterprise when it came to looking critically at materialist Jewish values/the Israel lobby/Israel's crimes. It's an outsider tradition; and even Sy Hersh admits that when it comes to Israel/Palestine he'd rather run naked thru the streets than say what's going on.
But when that tradition is revived, if it is revived, then all the young Jewish journos are going to finally go to town on the Israel lobby and the slaughter of Palestinians, cause they think it will make their careers. They'll be anti-Sarah-Silverman's ethnocentrism. And anti-Jeffrey Goldberg's denial of the lobby.
I think it's happening. You see stirrings of an awakening in the young Jewish bloggers and Max Blumenthal's great Gaza video, and in Michelle Goldberg saying the older Jews are defending the indefensible. And here's the good news from Jeff Blankfort:
Here's Eli Valley's website. Titled "Ethnocentric Parochialism for the Whole Family!" The Feb. 6, 2009 cartoon from the Forward there shows a guy who made a killing "dumping arsenic in Peru" paying for a Jewish conference with a theological discussion of our values.
Oh boy. That's what I'm talking about…
