Cockburn: Israel and "Anti-Semitism"

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Thu May 16 16:01:46 PDT 2002


Aside from being politically dumb, citing the Times jewish forebears is positively ignorant.

One ought not forget that the waves of Jewish immigration between 1890--1920 were not warmly welcomed by Jews already resident in the U.S. The former were from Poland and Russia and mostly poor, while the latter were predominantly German and relatively well-off. The Sulzbergers settled in America in the *18*th century. Adolph Ochs' family was from Bavaria and came before 1900. He bought the Times with somebody else's money, usually a good sign of someone already well-endowed.

These people have little in common with most Jews, Zionist or otherwise. They are different from you and me.

mbs


> I think Doug's point is crucial. There is NOTHING to be gained by even
> marginally noting that the ownership of this or that is Jewish.



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