More evidence of the power and autonomy of the Israel lobby. It turns out the Democratic Party’s platform’s lack of a Jerusalem plank isn’t the only thing wrong with it, and Alan Dershowitz is going to call the White House to complain. “The omission [of]… the Palestinian refugee issue and Hamas are, I think, deeply troubling,” Dershowitz tells the Daily Caller; the Democrats must be on the record not permitting any right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes in Israel.
Notice the entitlement in Dershowitz’s boldfaced declarations. How many other Harvard law professors have a red phone to the White House? It would be hubris, or chutzpah, if he was blowing smoke. But I don’t think he is.
“As soon as I hang up with you, I will call people I know in the White House and in the Democratic Party and find out what’s going on,” Dershowitz said. ”But believe me this is not the last the Democrats will have heard about this issue. They will hear from me on this one.”
Dershowitz says while the platform debate could potentially just be chocked up to “carelessness,” he is afraid that anti-Israel extremists within the Democratic Party are having undue influence.
“It’s not the Democratic base. It’s extremists within the Democratic base who may have more influence than they should on platform,” he said. “I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.”
“He is afraid that anti-Israel extremists within the Democratic Party are having undue influence.”
As opposed to his influence. Poor Dersh. Like many great people he leaves nobody to carry the flame forward after he dies. He’ll end up like Zsa Zsa Gabor, with the same level of traction on the future.
In his Westchester county nursing home in 2024 the news will come through that Israel has been dissolved. The nurses will keep it from him. He’ll hopefully have an Arab American personal assistant by then. He’ll be deep into dementia.
yeah, because having radical extremists demand changes in the dem party platform is so comforting to lefties.
So the best these “extremists” could manage is to have the platform not say some stuff about Palestinians? How terribly extreme of them. I shudder to think what else they have terrorised the party into firmly, adamantly and unequivocally not saying.
Dershowitz claims that the problems in getting a pro-Israel plank in the Democratic platform are “not with the Democratic base”?? What rubbish.
Much of the Democratic voter base – African-Americans, white Liberals – are indifferent to Israel or critical of Israeli policy.
Meanwhile, many voters who are strong supporters of Israel are evangelical Christians – and in recent decades this means Republicans, not Democrats.
It’s really only among (some) American Jews that you find people who support liberal policies on all other issues but support Israeli racism, whether because of tribal solidarity or Zionist propaganda.
Once again, Dershowitz strikes out.
Let him gnash his teeth and stamp his feet.
He’s becoming irrelevant. Mondoweiss and others have helped to make the truth known and much more mainstream.
People are talking, and it is not anti- semitic talk. It is sunlight, starting to stream through the haze.