Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz says that cracks are forming in American Jewish identity, and his superannuated brothers and sisters here are worried about it:
Look at all of the passions expended recently over J Street. It all wasn’t only about determining the best way to secure Israel’s, future and about the legitimacy of the J Streeters calling upon the Obama administration to pressure Netanyahu. What really panicked so many establishment figures was the fact that the most significant joint endeavor of America’s Jews – six decades of unswerving support for the Israeli government of the day – could be questioned by a bunch of irreverent youngsters.
Notice the frank identification of the Israel lobby as unswerving and Jewish and tied to whatever gov’t there is in Israel. I know: an antisemitic canard. Our greatest achievement. And here I thought it was Seinfeld!
