[Hermann the Cherusker]

These authors are clearly anti-semitic

Why? Are they advocating racial or religious hatred of Jews? It certainly doesn't appear so.

[gondramB]

Me: These authors are clearly anti-semitic

Hermann: Why? Are they advocating racial or religious hatred of Jews? It certainly doesn't appear so.


What convinced me was this line "The Lobby" (their capitalization), an overwhelmingly Jewish force abetted by some Christian evangelicals and a gentile neocon collaborator or two, who have hijacked American foreign policy and controlled it for decades."

[rmlew]

"These authors are clearly anti-semitic "
Why? Are they advocating racial or religious hatred of Jews? It certainly doesn't appear so.
Cohen has an answer in his article.

Inept, even kooky academic work, then, but is it anti-Semitic? If by anti-Semitism one means obsessive and irrationally hostile beliefs about Jews; if one accuses them of disloyalty, subversion or treachery, of having occult powers and of participating in secret combinations that manipulate institutions and governments; if one systematically selects everything unfair, ugly or wrong about Jews as individuals or a group and equally systematically suppresses any exculpatory information -- why, yes, this paper is anti-Semitic.

Their position seems to be based on a double-standard against Jews, much of which uses ideas from classical anti-Semitic texts like the Protocols.

In so far as they see Jewish support for Israel as evil, there is an element of anti-Semitism. The simple fact is that Judaism is based on a trinity of the Law/religion of Israel, the people of Israel, and the land of Israel. To deny. Thrice daily religious Jews pray for a fuill return from exile. Anti-zionism is inherently anti-Jewish.