John Mearsheimer gave a speech at the Palestine Center in Washington yesterday and called Israel an apartheid state that has practiced ethnic cleansing and will likely practice it in the future. For Mearsheimer, this is standard practice. But he added a new twist: he separated American Jews into three categories: “Righteous Jews,†“New Afrikaners,†and a middle group of Jews who aren’t quite sure whether they’re righteous or ethnic cleansers. These are Mearsheimer’s Righteous Jews:
To give you a better sense of what I mean when I use the term righteous Jews, let me give you some names of people and organizations that I would put in this category. The list would include Noam Chomsky, Roger Cohen, Richard Falk, Norman Finkelstein, Tony Judt, Tony Karon, Naomi Klein, MJ Rosenberg, Sara Roy, and Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss fame, just to name a few. I would also include many of the individuals associated with J Street and everyone associated with Jewish Voice for Peace, as well as distinguished international figures such as Judge Richard Goldstone. Furthermore, I would apply the label to the many American Jews who work for different human rights organizations, such as Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch.
And then there are America’s Afrikaner Jews, who are not just apologists for apartheid and ethnic cleansing, but are actually a fifth column. Note that he goes beyond the normal “dual loyalty†trope and says that these American Jews are “blindly loyal†only to Israel:
These are individuals who will back Israel no matter what it does, because they have blind loyalty to the Jewish state. … I would classify most of the individuals who head the Israel lobby’s major organizations as new Afrikaners. That list would include Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress, and Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America, just to name some of the more prominent ones. I would also include businessmen like Sheldon Adelson, Lester Crown, and Mortimer Zuckerman as well as media personalities like Fred Hiatt and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Peretz of the New Republic. It would be easy to add more names to this list.
I believe Mearsheimer left out a category: “Anti-Semites and Jew-Baiters.†I will leave it to you who to add to that list.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/287376Those unfamiliar with Mearsheimer's so-called work:
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy[1] is the title of a book by John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, published in late August 2007. It was a New York Times Best Seller.[2]
The book describes the lobby as a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction".[3] The book "focuses primarily on the lobby's influence on U.S. foreign policy and its negative effect on American interests".[4] The authors also argue that "the lobby's impact has been unintentionally harmful to Israel as well".[5]
The authors argue that although "the boundaries of the Israel lobby cannot be identified precisely", it "has a core consisting of organizations whose declared purpose is to encourage the U.S. government and the American public to provide material aid to Israel and to support its government's policies, as well as influential individuals for whom these goals are also a top priority".[6] They note that "not..every American with a favorable attitude to Israel is part of the lobby",[7] and that although "the bulk of the lobby is comprised of Jewish Americans",[8] there are many American Jews who are not part of the lobby, and the lobby also includes Christian Zionists.[9] They also claim a drift of important groups in "the lobby" to the right,[10] and overlap with the neoconservatives.[11]
The book was originally commissioned by The Atlantic Monthly, which then rejected it. The scholarship of the authors has been criticized,[12][13]and critics also faulted the authors for having an overly broad and vague definition of the "Israel lobby,"[13][14][15][16][17][18] confusing cause and effect, "cherry-picking" information,[15][19] relying too heavily on unreliable and unsubstantiated information,[15][19] and for misquoting and misstatements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_PolicyThe book is effectively a "Protocol of the Elders of Zion" for the new millennium.
So, lefties, what is more Gestapo-like:
A) weeding out criminals of a specific type of crime in a crime-ridden area
or
B) inventing lies about insidious Jews and then separating them into lists of righteous Jews and "dreckig juden."
