People are still buzzing about Joe Klein’s statement that the Iraq-war-sponsoring neocons suffered from dual loyalty. I hope Klein is mainstreaming the issue. I’d point out as I have before that several writers have brought up dual loyalty and Israel, notably John Judis of the New Republic. A year ago he wrote this important piece largely defending Walt and Mearsheimer and raising an issue they refuse to touch, dual loyalty.
[Jewish leaders] want to demand of American Jewish intellectuals a certain loyalty
to Israel, Israeli policies, and to Zionism as part of their being
Jewish. They make dual loyalty an inescapable part of being Jewish in a
world in which a Jewish state exists.
And that’s probably the case.
Many Jews now suffer from dual loyalty–the same way that
Cuban-Americans or Mexican-Americans do. By ignoring this dilemma–and,
worse still, by charging those who acknowledge its existence with
anti-Semitism–the critics of the new anti-Semitism are engaged in a
flight from their own political selves. They are guilty of a certain
kind of bad faith.
My link is to the Carnegie site; Judis is a fellow there. You can’t find Judis’s piece on the New Republic site, where it appeared. Here’s the error message on my old link. Two months back I asked Judis whether TNR is censoring the piece.
I suspect it has to do with Canadian computer malfeasance, not with
Mideastern politics. About six months ago, Canwest, which now owns us,
incorporated our web site into their general technical operation, and
in the process screwed up the archives for everything that had appeared
before on the web, including the articles from the magazine itself. It
is supposed to be fixed soon.
You still can’t find the piece; and TNR’s site says it hasn’t worked out the glitches. You’d think they’d be bragging about the scoop.
