By: Jonathan S. Tobin, JEWISH PRESS
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Sometimes, the most daring thing a scholar or an organization can do is mention the obvious. That is a lesson that Indiana University’s Professor Alvin H. Rosenfeld and the American Jewish Committee have recently learned to their sorrow.
Rosenfeld is the author of a 30-page study titled “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,†which was published in December by AJCommittee. In it Rosenfeld, briefly surveys the international rise of anti-Semitism and then goes on to touch on the various excesses of intellectual anti-Zionists with an emphasis on those leftist Jews who are important elements in the massive contemporary assault on Israel. CONTINUE
“Jewish writers and thinkers”, “intellectual anti-Zionists”. Why do I feel nauseous?
Just a bunch of puffed-up, self-important fools. I’ve had dealings with the odd one or two. Not pretty. The smell of hypocrisy and moral exhibitionism is positively putrid when you back them against a wall (metaphorically). Kind of like skunk.
Who or what do these people think they are? What influence do think they have on my friends and I? They have no influence whatsoever, and they should know that if things get much worse for the Jews, as they could, my friends and I will be the mother of all thorns in their flesh.
Clowns.