http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/03/25/who-should-the-thinking-anti-semite-vote-for/ For whom should the thinking anti-Semite vote?
By Sam Schulman (bio)
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I am often asked this question. So let me clear up some confusion. It’s true that some of Senator Obama’s best friends are Jewish. Michael Crowley at the New Republic notes that the support of American Democratic-party Jews is split more or less evenly between Obama and Clinton (although he notes that the polling was done largely before Reverendgate). And an anti-Semite would certainly say that Jews are suspiciously overrepresented in Obama’s campaign - with David Axelrod (himself a refugee from Hillary) calling the shots and Penny Pritzker overlooking the shekels (natch).
But the point is not who Jews support (they can be found everywhere - their ubiquity is typical of their scheming nature), but who anti-Semites support. And here, there is no contest. The Obama campaign is a safe place for anti-Semitism. Consider. The largest gathering of Jews in the world is in one place: Israel. If you dislike Jews, you’ll hate Israel. And the list of Israel-haters and Jew-demonizers at the very highest levels of the Obama campaign, and among his closest supporters, is legion. The Reverend Mr. Jeremiah Wright himself. Jimmy Carter. Former, now disavowed, foreign policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and his anti-Semitic friends Walt and Mearsheimer. Former foreign policy advisor Samantha Powers, now banned because she was too honest. Overenthusiastic supporter Phil Weiss, who glories in Israel-hatred, especially by attractive women who are non-Jews. To this list of notables we can now add General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, Obama’s spokesman on national defense and candidate for Defense Secretary, and the man who called Bill Clinton “McCarthyite.”
But as Robert Goldberg of The American Spectator points out, General McPeak is no mean McCarthyite himself:
“In recent years McPeak has echoed the Mearsheimer-Walt view that American Middle East policy is being controlled by Jews at the expense of America’s interests in the region. In a 2003 interview with the Oregonian, McPeak complained of that the “lack of playbook for getting Israelis and Palestinians together at…something other than a peace process….We need to get it fixed and only we have the authority with both sides to move them towards that. Everybody knows that.”
The interviewer asked McPeak: “So where’s the problem? State? White House?”
McPeak replied: “New York City. Miami. We have a large vote — vote, here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it.”"
So if you think that American Jews are disloyal simply because of the cut of their circumcision, and don’t mind consorting with the likes of Marty Peretz, you’ll find the Obama campaign a good bet. As Phil Weiss writes of Senator Obama: “like Reagan he’s leading a movement, whose core this time is progressive worldly leftwingers, mixed up with liberals, conservatives, the whole duststream of Obama’s comet. We’re not going away.” And in the path of this particular comet lies the existence of Israel as a national state for Jews and a liberal state with freedom for its Jewish, Christian and Muslim citizens. Zioncides and anti-Semites can surely put up with a few hapless, friendly Jews for the sake of the greater good. Make yourselves at home.
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