Writer Peter Beinart worked for AIPAC during the last presidential cycle, doing private events AIPAC refused to allow me to attend. Well he was on Hardball tonight taking the side of Mexican-Americans in Arizona. They are, he said, emblematic of "politically vulnerable minorities historically in our country who get roughed up by abusive government." Later he said that the immigrants are "human beings reacting the way that we would react" in the same situation.
Does the rubber ever meet the road with this guy? I don’t think he’s said one kind word about the vulnerable minority in Israel/Palestine, has never put himself in the Palestinians’ shoes. I want to say it’s strictly partisan–he’s making hay for the Democrats. But I think it probably goes deeper. He probably looks on Jews/Israelis as a politically vulnerable minority.
