In the "Get a Life" category, two recent attacks on good Samantha Power: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency calls Samantha Power a "strident Israel critic." The Zionist Organization of America calls Samantha Power "deeply anti-Israel."
The JTA piece is about Brit Tzedek meeting the Zionist Organization of America; JTA suggests that these are the two poles of Jewish opinion. A coverup. It's on a related ground that I find I'm a little irritated by the Times piece on Burg today with its Israel dateline. The stirrings of Jewish anti- and non-Zionism in the US are never covered in the Times, except negatively. I don't believe they've ever covered the biggest news of the last year, the Cohen/Kelman study showing young American Jews getting off the Israel bus. Earlier this year Ralph Seliger said that I am representative of the great diversity in Jewish opinion re Israel. Well if we are representative, then how come we're not represented?
Adam Horowitz responds:
ZOA's
Mort Klein afterwards, and they had a civil, even pleasant
conversation, she said, and discovered something in common (aside, of
course, from a love for Israel, however differently slanted): Each, it
turns out, has a sibling who thinks their politics are, well, nuts."
Love of Israel is the ticket you need to get in the door, either in DC or the Times.
Notice this point is also made in the Burg piece, his insistence that
he is saying this from a place of love: "He wrote from love, he said,
and if the issues he raised were troubling, if they caused a stir, that
was very much his aim."
