[lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Fri Aug 6 18:43:57 PDT 2010


Consider it the Higher Anti-Semitism: the Jews made us do it...

On 8/6/10 8:02 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
>
> > Well done. I can't shake the feeling that at bottom, the
> > anti-Lobby focus is racist, with the belief that Jews are
> > controlling Our political process, etc.
>
> It certainly partakes of the classic tropes of anti-Semitism -
> manipulative cabals controlling forces behind the scenes, etc. And it
> strangely implies or assumes that the rest of U.S. foreign policy is
> benign, and support of Israel an exception to the rule.



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