> >There are a number of stories sloshing around the news now that have
> >raised discussion of Israel and of the posture of American Jews to
> >an acrid level. The purveyor of anthrax may have been a former
> >government scientist of Jewish ethnic extraction with a record of
> >baiting a colleague of Arab origins, acting with the intent to blame
> >the anthrax on Muslim terrorists. Rocketing around the Web and
> >spilling into the press are many stories about Israeli spies in
> >America at the time of 9/11. On various accounts of unknown
> >reliability, they were trailing Atta and his associates, knew what
> >was going to happen but did nothing...
>
> Why does the "socialism of fools" survive the end of real socialism?
You're referring to anti-semitism, I take it. Is anti-semitism contained in the Cockburn passage you've quoted?
Seth