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Hoenlein: Delegitimization of Israel rising among US elite
Jerusalem Post ^ | Jan. 23, 2007 | Haviv Rettig

Posted on 01/23/2007 9:51:37 AM PST by Alouette

In the coming years American Jewry will face the most significant delegitimization of Israel it has ever encountered, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

This will occur, he believes, as the blueprint developed at the Durban Conference on Racism in 2001 is implemented by anti-Israel activists in America.

Hoenlein is expected to deliver this message to the Herzliya Conference on Tuesday, in a speech titled "The Poisoning of America," along with recommendations for action on the part of American Jews and Israel to help fight what he sees as a growing threat to support for Israel in America.

"Right now we enjoy the broadest support for Israel than perhaps at any time since the creation of the state, about 70 percent of the American people," he asserted.

Nevertheless, he insisted, "at the next Herzliya Conference we're going to be discussing how this could happen, how this cancer was allowed to spread to the United States."

The process Hoenlein sees happening in America is similar to what occurred in Britain, he said, "where the elite in society were turned against Israel. The fact that [Harvard and University of Chicago professors] Walt and Mearsheimer couldn't publish [their study claiming overwhelming influence of the 'Israel lobby' in Washington] in the United States, but had to go to the London Review of Books," was telling, he believes.

Now however, Walt and Mearsheimer "have a major contract, and are anticipating sales of one million copies."

In addition, "sales of [former US President Jimmy] Carter's book [Peace Not Apartheid] have been topping best seller lists."

"What was once acceptable on the fringes is now acceptable in the mainstream," he said, concluding that "at times, the American Jewish community has to [exercise] greater assertiveness."


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: academica; antisemitism; israel
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1 posted on 01/23/2007 9:51:37 AM PST by Alouette
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2 posted on 01/23/2007 9:51:57 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: Alouette

Two things need emphasis. One, is that left-wing intellectuals are leading the pack. Another is that the new antisemitism is hopping on board the anti-racism bandwagon to legitimize itself.

How can antisemitism be loved by those who condemn racism? Because Jews are being removed as a designated victim group. They no longer fit into the multicultural basket. This author traces the danger back to "the Durban Conference on Racism," a coalition of black African, third world, and Muslim nations, together with self-loathing Europeans, who are scratching each others' backs and are more or less congruous with the UN as presently constituted.

So you might say that Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu are joining to say that it's OK to be antisemitic, because the Jews are racist, colonialist oppressors of the heroic, downtrodden Palestinian people.

Not terribly logical, perhaps, but that's how I see their tiny minds working.


3 posted on 01/23/2007 10:03:23 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Alouette

Israel may lose the "elites," but they'll always have us "Bible-thumpers." There's a lesson there.


4 posted on 01/23/2007 10:04:24 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ("Shallach 'et-`ammi, veya`avduni!!!")
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To: Zionist Conspirator

What is really amazing is their support of the Dems.


5 posted on 01/23/2007 10:07:31 AM PST by DownInFlames
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Yes, but it astounds me that U.S. Jews in large part continue to vote for Dhimmocrats despite the virulent anti-semitism...


6 posted on 01/23/2007 10:07:37 AM PST by kromike
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To: Alouette

of course it is- it's precisely what is prophesied in the bible- not the U.S specifically, but the world view overall. It used to be people listened to the word and knew that standing with God's peopel would gain th4e blessings of God, but that is apparently no longer the sentiments- Are we close to the end? Lots of signs lining up- can they be resolved? Sure- even those in Pauls day thought the end was near- these signs may be somethign, they may not- we'll see- but the middle east does seem ready to explode with the bear of russia hot for domination too.

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7 posted on 01/23/2007 10:10:59 AM PST by CottShop
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To: Cicero

Logic is not a strong facet of liberalism and liberals.


8 posted on 01/23/2007 10:18:51 AM PST by Niuhuru
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To: Alouette
Pretty soon American Jews are going to have to decide which is more important to them; their puzzling 150 year old affinity for European and Eastern European flavored "social justice", or their many thousands year old connection to their homeland and religion.

Many of them may be surprised to learn that the many groups who wish to persecute and murder them will be just as happy to target secular and liberal Jews as they will the orthodox and conservative Jews.

For such an otherwise brilliant people, they sure are dim when it comes to knowing who are their friends and who are their enemies.

9 posted on 01/23/2007 10:20:00 AM PST by Jeff F
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To: Cicero

Logic is not a strong facet of liberalism and liberals.


10 posted on 01/23/2007 10:45:36 AM PST by Niuhuru
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To: Alouette

Brandeis U. was hosting looneytunes Carter today, the meeting not open to the public at large. Much negative to do about his book/so called mind, etc.. Presumably a few choice insults hurled in his direction by the faculty will be leaked.


11 posted on 01/23/2007 10:48:33 AM PST by hershey
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12 posted on 01/23/2007 11:05:17 AM PST by SJackson (Let a thousand flowers bloom and let all our rifles be aimed at the occupation, Abu Mazen 1/11/07)
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To: CottShop

Indeed.

Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.


13 posted on 01/23/2007 11:11:09 AM PST by agrace ("Kill the Jews and infidels!" = free speech; "Muslims preach violence!" = hate speech)
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To: hershey
Brandeis U. was hosting looneytoons Carter today, the meeting not open to the public at large.

Brandeis U. collectively has long since forgotten that it was founded under Jewish auspices.

14 posted on 01/23/2007 11:20:24 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Alouette
Hoenlein will say, according to the article, that "the elite in [American] society" are turning against Israel. I'll know that he means business when and if he links "the elite" to the Left. No more euphamisms, Malcolm, please.
15 posted on 01/23/2007 11:30:44 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Zionist Conspirator

There was a program on antisemitish with Judy Woodruff(/) last night. They blamed the idea on Christians but failed to mention that evangelicals have always had a soft spot for Jews. Cromwell let them back into England; Lord Shaftesbury, the most influencial evangelical in the 19th Century, a friend of Gladstone, actually started the Zionist movment.


16 posted on 01/23/2007 12:15:49 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: agrace

hey thanks for that verse- yup- that pretty much sums it all up perfectly- prophesy revealing itself perhaps.


17 posted on 01/23/2007 12:27:24 PM PST by CottShop
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To: RobbyS
There was a program on antisemitish with Judy Woodruff(/) last night. They blamed the idea on Christians but failed to mention that evangelicals have always had a soft spot for Jews. Cromwell let them back into England; Lord Shaftesbury, the most influencial evangelical in the 19th Century, a friend of Gladstone, actually started the Zionist movment.

It's amazing that that today's Fundamentalist-Evangelicals, who didn't even exist in the ancient world or Middle Ages, are made the scapegoats for chr*stian anti-Semitism while the churches that were actually responsible get a free pass.

My own personal theory as to why Jews (especially secular Jews) don't encourage (to put it mildly!) the philo-Semitism of Fundamentalist/Evangelical chr*stianity is that it has nothing whatsoever to do with J*sus and everything with the fact that they don't want to be associated with the Bible (the racist, sexist, homophobic, heterosexist, ant-scientific, and speciesist text of West Virginia snake-handlers).

18 posted on 01/23/2007 12:30:36 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator ("Shallach 'et-`ammi, veya`avduni!!!")
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To: Cicero

There is no more a democratic left (if there ever was one, in spite of the contradictions). The left nowadays are red fascists.


19 posted on 01/23/2007 8:02:27 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Alouette; Mia T
"...In the coming years American Jewry will face the most significant delegitimization of Israel it has ever encountered, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday..."

Well, they can always call hildabeaste! She loves those f&%cking-jew-bastards. ........... FRegards

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I may, or may not, get away with this ...........

20 posted on 01/24/2007 1:04:30 AM PST by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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