>I dont think you realize how
>ridiculous not to mention obscene your trying to equate the vile racism
>and imperialist policies that are being protected from view with this
>charge of "anti-semitism" and the threat that real antisemitism poses
>today, which as people like Chomsky and Finkelstein have repeatedly
>pointed out, is a as much a real threat today as anti-Irish or
>anti-Italian feeling. It also shows how the US left, including you,
>often comes across as a paronoid, insecure community constantly subject
>to and kept in line by the ideological policing of the likes of the
>NEwRepublic, DP, Dissent and cops like Max and Brad.
Well no, I don't fit your model. I admire the work of Chomsky & Finkelstein. I've never heard either say "The Jews run the media." But regardless of the real or imagined threat of anti-Semitism in the U.S. to actual living Jews, formulations like that completely obscure the usefulness of Israel to U.S. imperial interests.
As for the discourse police, I never read the New Republic, spend a lot of time denouncing the Democratic Party, and have written gossipy though hostile items about Dissent. Neither Max nor Brad is a cop, and if you think they are, you're hallucinating. I don't agree with them on some things, and you obviously don't on more things, but they are not the enemy.
Doug