>>Edmund Hanauer -- the director of SEARCH for Justice and Equality in
>>Palestine/Israel <http://www.searchforjustice.org/>, the speaker whom
>>we recently invited to give a talk at the Ohio State University, as
>>you may recall -- brought up the topic of collaboration between
>>Zionists and often anti-Semitic Christian evangelicals in his talk.
>>While Max says it's all because "most American Jews support a Jewish
>>state and accept the need for some measure of realpolitik as the
>>price for that, including alliances with obnoxious people,"
>>comparable to the majority of Ohio voters' support for Republicans, I
>>think that most American Jews (many of whom are more liberal than
>>conservative) are actually unaware of the degree to which those who
>>claim to represent American Jewry, as well as Israel, have made a
>>marriage of convenience with Jew haters (not just garden-variety
>>"obnoxious people"!). I think Jewish leftists can stir up a
>>meaningful controversy if they call out Zionist leaders on their
>>habit of sleeping with enemies.
>
>There has been a rational, anti-right-wing/pro-peace Israeli/Zionist
>left for 20 years, with its own auxiliary in the U.S. Has its own
>magazine (Tikkun, w/the infamous Michael 'Politics of Meaning' Lerner).
>This is all old shit.
And a while ago A. Finlayson wrote:
>>Why then do the American policy elite go to such great lengths to hide
>>information from _even those Americans who make active efforts to seek >it,
>>using FOIA suits and the like_, even about US government actions >taken many
>>decades ago in the good old days of the Cold War and before >it?
>
>Well, it isn't very well hidden is it seeing as how you know all about it.
While information alone is never enough, I think both you & Finlayson are overestimating what people know, assuming that everyone is a media junkie like most leftists.
Let's take Tikkun, for instance. According to the Alternative Press Center's Online Directory (@ <http://www.altpress.org/direct_t.html>):
Tikkun : A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society Published: bimonthly Total Paid Circulation: 25,800 (international)
Not exactly a household item, probably not even a Jewish household item, though it does surpass the Left Business Observer in total paid circulation and regularity of publication. :->
Left Business Observer Published: monthly [!] Total Paid Circulation: 3,000 (national) -- Yoshie
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