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‘WSJ’ books editor says he’s thrown out Blumenthal book on Israel

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Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari

In the American denial category. Sohrab Ahmari is the assistant books editor at the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday he tweeted links to a harsh review of Max Blumenthal’s book Goliath, by Eric Alterman in The Nation.

Ahmari then elaborated:

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 19, 2013

I wonder if Alterman’s Jewish nationalism will drive him further rightward, out of The Nation fold, ultimately into the Wall Street Journal’s arms, all the time describing himself as a liberal.

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aha.

Ahmari shows his true colors– again. Neocon puke.

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I wonder if Alterman’s Jewish nationalism will drive him further rightward, out of The Nation fold, ultimately into the Wall Street Journal’s arms, all the time describing himself as a liberal.
He does alot of Democratic stuff. Probably he prefers where he is as long as the Nation and other progressives do not take a strong focus on the issue to the extent they have some other issues.

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/In the American denial category/

Or could it be that the book is really lousy ?

Btw i read briefly some chapters free on amazon.
It’s boring, tedious, and full of exaggerations misinterpretations and conclusions detached from reality to the point that i just closed waved my hand and decided not to even bother summing it all up.Life is too short.

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Eric Alterman has been a consitent and constant supporter of Israel and its evil deeds. It will be interesting what responses to his review the Nation chooses to publish. The letters to the editor a news outlet chooses to publish are the best record of what a publication thinks its mission is.

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Sohrab Ahmari is a conservative Iranian-American who supports U.S.-led regime change in Iran and is closely associated with right-wing[…]

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/ahmari_sohrab

Of course this neocon Zionist would oppose Max’s book. The rightweb profile on him says it all:

In a contentious Twitter exchange with Daily Beast writer Ali Gharib, Ahmari doubled down on his claims about the causes behind the turmoil in the Middle East, claiming that Israel’s illegal settlement-building program in the West Bank—which BDS was organized to oppose—is in part a response to Arab ”murderousness.”

“Do you realize now,” Ahmari tweeted to Gharib, “that Arab pathologies have nothing to do with a few Jews in the West Bank? … The [Middle East and North Africa] problem, to which Israel policies in territories are a reaction, is crisis of Arab civilization.” When pressed by Gharib to clarify whether he was arguing that West Bank settlements are in fact “a reaction to insecurity,” Ahmari wrote: “I’m saying security is a part of it. Oui, oui. But there are also legal claims to the land which I don’t want to hash out here. … It is easy in Brooklyn [Gharib’s home] to tell a besieged, flawed democracy to relinquish a buffer against all that [Arab] murderousness.” After Gharib subsequently pressed Ahmari to “tell me what kind of pathologies lead to the installation of civilian families—[including] children—as a security buffer,” Ahmari apparently ended the exchange.

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