On Time Magazine’s Swampland Blog, Joe Klein raises the old canard that American Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the US:
“The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives… plumped for this war, and now for an even more foolish assault on Iran, raised the question of divided loyalties: using U.S. military power, U.S. lives and money, to make the world safe for Israel.”
In response, Shmuel Rosner, Chief U.S. Correspondent for Haaretz.com, points out the anti-Jewish bias central to Klein’s way of thinking:
Saying that Joe Lieberman supported the war in Iraq because of disloyalty to America is basically saying that no Jewish person can ever support a policy that can be perceived as beneficial to Israel. If Condoleezza Rice supports the war – that’s legitimate. If Paul Wolfowitz supports the war – it’s not. They might have the exact same motives, but Klein will differentiate between the two because one is not Jewish and the other is Jewish.
What could be more bigoted than Judging people on the basis of their religion? The fact that Klein himself is Jewish is irrelevant. There are other Jews