"How the Jews control Hollywood" is a tendentious summary of Cockburn's observation, "Since three of the prime founders of Hollywood, were Polish Jews who grew up within fifty miles of each other in Galicia, it's reckoned as not so utterly beyond the bounds of propriety to talk about Jewish power in Hollywood, though people still stir uneasily" -- apparently on this list as well.
And why is spying by the Israeli secret police in and on the US an unmentionable topic? It certainly seems to have taken place.
But I don't think it's true to say that Israel, although clearly a racist state, is "founded on religious dogma." Nor do I think it's the case that "many 'Jews' in the US who would like to speak out against Zionism but are simply afraid to bec Mossad has paid them a visit, as it has to each and every prominent US 'Jew'." (And why the quotes?) The changing relationship of American Jews to the state of Israel is notably set out in Norman Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry. --CGE
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
> I have no problem with Cockburn exposing WASP antisemitism but why
> does he go on to mention how the Jews control Hollywood and how Mossad
> is spying on the US? The problem of Israel, an ethnical racist state
> founded on religious dogma, is bad enough without this confused
> Jew-talk. There are many "Jews" in the US who would like to speak out
> against Zionism but are simply afraid to bec Mossad has paid them a
> visit, as it has to each and every prominent US "Jew". Mossad is so
> active in the US that it's impossible to say with certainty how much
> the US Jewish community support for Israel is due to "Jewishness" and
> how much to sheer intimidation. When Jewish ethnicity becomes state
> ideology, Jewish ethnical identity becomes subject to state policy. It
> reminds me of Turkish Cypriots, who would much rather be Europeans but
> are forced by the Turkish Cypriot state to remain loyal to their
> ethnicity and hold the line.
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> Hakki
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