Jerks

The anti-Israel, anti-Semitic cast running and supporting the anti-Iraq coalition that is putting on a march in D.C., L.A. and San Francisco this coming Saturday is finally too much to stomach by at least one Jewish group. Harry’s Place today quotes the Shalom Center’s Arthur Waskow: “Some of these anti-war activists taint their opposition by demonizing the whole of Israeli society and by refusing to criticize the "violence of the oppressed," even when it includes terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians by Palestinian groups.” Waskow understates that, “Their misguided views make it much easier for some parts of mainstream America to reciprocally demonize the entire anti-war camp and deprive it of support.” Waskow’s got that only half correct. The entire so-called anti-war movement represented by ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice is controlled by extremists of the worst sort. They are not demonized, except by their own extremism.

The Workmen’s Circle in Los Angeles, hypocritically participating in the demonstrations anyway, said: “The overwhelming emphasis on Israel as the world power committing wrongful acts is so misguided, so obstructionist. It is extremely dispiriting to see it repeated yet again. Regardless of our positions on an eventual resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, indeed on the complex sources of that conflict, the simpleminded conflation of what is happening there with what is happening in Iraq, and an assumption of identity of purpose between the Israeli and American governments, is a strategy that reduces great historical movements to a few "militant"-sounding slogans that are objectively not just anti-Israel but anti-Jewish.”

I wonder if these jerks hope to get medals from their anti-Semitic leaders that they can use to try and excuse themselves from those ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice support would line up to march into the Mediterranean.