Posted by David Bernstein:
Kampeas on Greenwald or Podhoretz:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_13-2009_09_19.shtml#1252960436
[1]Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (who I think is rather
politically liberal himself):
So [Glenn] Greenwald is either infuriated into delusion or is
willfully lying when he [claims that Podhoretz wrote that]"even
though Obama shares most of their views on political matters. . .
American Jews should have nonetheless voted for McCain because of
McCain's 'alleged long history of sympathy with Israel'".... This
is the kind of misreading that would get Greenwald booted out of a
suburban weekly (or might otherwise earn Greenwald an excoriation
from, well, himself), and the same is true of his sloppy ellisions,
from Podhoretz to the entire neoconservative movement."
Kampeas goes on, in a post well worth reading, especially if you've
been persuaded by Greenwald's attacks on neoconservatives.
Let me add that I am not a neoconservative, but I find worse than
distasteful the consistent willful distortion by the likes of
Greenwald of the neocon's general belligerent, militaristic,
pro-democracy, pro-Western, anti-radical Islam views into a Jewish
cabal dedicated to the promotion of Israel. (Joe Klein memorably
described neoconservatism as "unilateral bellicosity cloaked in the
utopian rhetoric of freedom and democracy," accurate, except I would
say it's not a cloak, it's what they believe they are fight for.) For
my previous posts on related matters, see [2]here and [3]here.
I'll reiterate what I said in the latter post: "The purpose, then, of
associating 'neocons' with Jews, and neoconservatism exclusively or
primarily with concern for Israel, is to delegitimize conservative
Jews, just as conservative blacks are called 'Uncle Toms' and
whatnot."
References
1.
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/09/12/1007807/greenwald-podhoretz-neocons
2. http://www.volokh.com/posts/1190474345.shtml
3. http://www.volokh.com/posts/1217108478.shtml
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