Anti-semitic, anti-immigrant

[Jordan Hayes]

> From Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> Fri Nov 19 09:43:11 1999
> 
> Similarly, That Jews are an "international" cabal, not "really"
> members of the communities and nations and people "among whom
> they live," is very old also, and still has a lot of life in it.
> (cf. gore vidal accusing American Jews of being a 'fifth column"
> supporting Israeli over US interests -- he would never call other
> US ethnicities traitorous for advocating particular foreign
> policies, no matter how ill-advised those policies were).

Doesn't some of this come from the unique place Israel has in this
world and especially the US?  Open citizenship for any Jew from
anywhere, self-characterization of being a "homeland", etc.? It's
interesting to note that joining a "foreign" military is a simple
way to get your US citizenship/passport revoked, unless of course
that military is Israeli.  Dual citizenship, ordinarily a big no-no
in the US, is tolerated for Israel.

I'm not a big an of nationalism, but Israel certainly has a niche
cut out that's real and identifiable.

Plus, it's a perfect conspiracy theory: if it *were* true, you'd
expect people like Gore Vidal to a) know and b) say so and people
like Katha Pollitt to a) know and b) deny it.


:-)

/mulder