July 17, 2006
Something for American Jews to remember in '06 and '08
Ben Smith reports on the disappearance of the pro-Israel left:
But the anti-war, anti-Bush, pro-Israel "progressive" political space occupied by the likes of the upper West Side's Rep. Jerrold Nadler and national Democrats such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is shrinking.Posted by Karol at July 17, 2006 06:55 AM | TrackBackIsrael's American allies are increasingly in the Republican Party, and leading journals of the American left have been skeptical of Israel's aggressive military response to the kidnapping of its soldiers.
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I'm pretty sure the space occupied by Jerrold Nadler will never diminish, crash gastric bypass surgery notwithstanding.
On a serious note, Phyllis Chesler has written extensively about this phenomenon recently:
I don't know if you covered this, but there was a blog posting at the Daily Kos by a raving anti-Semite, which attracted praise from all of the deranged Kos Kiddies.
The sole exception being a Jewish member from Michigan, who bravely pointed out the disturbing similarities between Die Stuemer and the cartoons posted by one of the Kossacks-a fitting moniker, considering how most of the people on that website view Jews-in spite of the hail of invective that met this very cogent point.
My friend Oleg satirized it recently:
Posted by: Gerard at July 17, 2006 12:16 PMScrew Isreal!
