>A claim that "the Jews" have disproportionate power
>is an odious anti-Semitic stereotype, but a claim that establishment
>Jews have power over ordinary Jews (mainly the power to cow them, by
>saying "Are you a self-hating Jew?" "Do you hate Israel?" etc.) in
>their communities to manufacture a semblance of consensus to serve
>imperialism, just as establishment Cubans, establishment Blacks,
>establishment whatever do, isn't.
Norman Finkelstein has long argued that Jewish leaders are very eager to play along with whatever the non-Jewish sector of the ruling class is up to, to cement their position as members of the elite. That seems like an important point - and, if anything, the opposite of anti-Semitic.
Doug