Remember Joel B. Pollak? We watched his irresistible rise as a student at Harvard Law School and an acolyte of Dershowitz, proselytizing the Palestinians. And attacking Arabic textbooks. The Washington Post–surprise–gave him a platform.
Now he’s running for Congress in Illinois. Harvard Law School paper picks up the news, and says it’s about Israel.
But here Pollak is, just before he announced, two weeks ago attacking the great incumbent Jan Schakowsky over… health care!
Is that what he really cares about? I don’t think so. I think that’s pure subterfuge.
At Harvard, in a talk with Dershowitz, the Harvard Crimson reported yesterday, Pollak says that Jewish Americans have to take Obama on on settlements and the Cairo speech. “Many Jewish-Americans voted for Obama, and now they suspect they were victims of a bait and switch.” Here he is defending the Gaza slaughter and attacking Israel’s "enemies."
Dershowitz was on Pollak’s left on this issue! Supporting Obama. I believe this unpleasant character will be in our public life, and the pages of the Washington Post, for a long time to come, like it or not. And the question is: Why? That is a question about Jewish identity, and power politics.
Jewish Americans have buyers remorse. Jewish Americans have been victim of “Bait and Switch” It was Obama that said Jerusalem shall not be divided. As a humane and responsible policy decision, a good first step towards reproachment would be to free prisoner of Zion Jonathan Pollard.
Wishful thinking, Podhoretz
Yes, let’s free everybody who does the utmost to expose and harm the USA so long as they think they are working in Israel’s interest. Imagine ImTirtzu’s take on an Israeli
citizen who did what Pollard did, only in behalf of the USA.
ImTirtzu, are you suggesting that Jewish Americans should put Israel’s interests ahead of their home country, the United States? Are you suggesting that Jonathan Pollard — an enemy of the United States, but a hero of Israel — should be absolved of all complicity in his espioniage, just set free because he didn’t “harm” our national security since we have a “special relationship” with Israel, an “unshakable bond”?
Thanks for this — you put the lie to the fact that the US and Israel have identical interests in the region. We don’t. Zionist extremists in the US put Israel’s interests ahead of America and we no longer have an issue with dual loyalty. We now know that you and your compatriots put Israel first. It’s OK that you do, we just need to pull our tax dollars away from funding the IDF’s killing of innocent women and children in Gaza, under the name of “Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas.”
America now has “buyer’s remorse” in believing that Israel is its “best friend” and “only democracy” in the region. Your comment on Pollard proves the lie. Thanks, dude.
Let Pollard rot till his lifes end in jail. The slimeball is getting off easy in there. Does anyone recall the Jewish kid who killed his neighbor and then fled to israel to avoid justice in America? Israel refused to give him up. He’s been on vacation ever since. How typical.
Tell us about it, Sakeema.
sorry, Saleema–again, tell us that story.
Schakowsky – there’s a good case of PEP, this so-called Progressive.