Freedman's just another word for nothing left to lose

Soccer Dad
27 June '10

No I couldn't resist recycling the title.

If the New York Times's hostility towards Israel manifest by today's Thomas Friedman column wasn't obvious, perhaps Samuel Freedman's American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause should convince even the most credulous defender of the New York Times that the paper is hostile to Israel, if not to Judaism.

Freedman gives a sympathetic hearing to the American Council for Judaism. According to Freedman:

And while the establishment of Israel and its centrality to American Jews consigned the council to irrelevancy for decades, the intense criticism of Israel now growing among a number of American Jews has made Mr. Naman's group look significant, or even prophetic.

But they're not significant. Certainly not the view they espouse. True with the likes of J-Street the view is amplified more. But, I suspect, that as more people see anti-Zionism as a stand-in for antisemitism that it is, Jews will understand that the American Council for Judaism serves as a useful idiot for hatred, not a serious organization.

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