Cockburn: Israel and "Anti-Semitism"

[Micheal Ellis]

>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

you mean they were 'yekkes'?

~M.E.