tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73253381498230176802011-07-31T04:26:18.623-04:00August Bebel,German Social Democrat leader in the 19th Century, described left-wing anti-Semitism as the "socialism of fools", to note the ideological distortion that gave rise to such prejudice. While this blog will address anti-Semitism, it will also address other expressions of modern left-wing thought - particularly the anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism crusading as "anti-Imperialism" - which indicate a similarly profound distortion from their original progressive intent.Adam Levicknoreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325338149823017680.post-81857826836171728642009-06-15T09:11:00.004-04:002009-06-15T15:35:26.143-04:00

There was a protest (about a dozen or so people) at Ben Yehuda Mall today (a crowded tourist destination in the center of town) against Israel's a security fence (or "Wall").The barrier in question consists of a network of fences and vehicle-barrier trenches (with less than 5% of the barrier consists of concrete walls) erected mostly along the 1949 border between Israel and Jordan, but diverging

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I've had a couple exchanges of late with friends about the idea of a two-state solution, the Obama administration's stance on what they see as Israeli intransigence on the issue of settlements, and the degree to which the election of Bibi Netanyahu presents an obstacle to peace - to which I would be inclined to reply as follows:The recent election of a center-right government headed by Netanyahu

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The Philadelphia Inquirer published my letter the other day - a reply to Dick Pollman's piece about what he feels is the Republicans' increasing irrelevance to a majority of Americans - but they decided to edit out a key passage in which, while disagreeing strongly with Pollman's insinuation that the Republican's opposition to gay marriage is the cause of this decline in popularity, I express my

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Below is a spot on take-down of the, at times, unintentionally hilarious recent NY Times piece on the "Hamas peace plan", by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Only the Times could conduct a full-length interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and argue, with a straight face, that he seeks peace. One of the most tragic aspects of the devolution of left-wing thought is their propensity

Adam Levicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325338149823017680.post-80189538807770328642009-04-30T10:15:00.006-04:002009-05-09T23:35:57.240-04:00

Stephen Walt is at it again. Writing in Foreign Policy magazine, his new essay, Treason of the Hawks, Walt, as he did in his book co-written with John Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, blames Israel, and only Israel, for the failure to achieve a peace agreement with the Palestinians, and then bizarrely implies that his vitriolic attacks on the Jewish state is undertaken as

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What Are They Really Asking When It Comes to Israeli Survival?April 23, 2009Adam Levick Adam Levick Jewish participation in the anti-Israel movement was front and center last month when a small Jewish group demonstrated against the Israeli "occupation" outside the opening night gala of the Philadelphia Israeli Film Festival. As the world watches the bizarre moral inversion taking place in Geneva

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This article by Gil Troy sums up much of my thinking about the moral elitism that many well-meaning American Jews especially, but not exclusively, in NYC suffer. At its heart is a stubborn refusal to acknowledge that no amount of Israeli good will or sechel (intellect) - of which, these Jews see themselves as possessing in massive quantities - by Israel's leaders can magically bring peace to the

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Naif Al-Mutawa's central point, in his essay, The Many Shapes of Extremism (see published reply in my last post), is here:"My intent was to advance the notion that extremism is nothing more than a bunch of neurotransmitters working overtime - or perhaps under time. It is not Islam or Judaism or Hinduism that creates extremism; rather, some people are predisposed to extremism and will pursue it in

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Here's my reply, published in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, to an op-ed by Naif al-Mutawa.Here's his op-ed:http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/42654992.htmlAnd my reply:http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/42947647.html?page=2&c=yText below:Naif al-Mutawa's op-ed ("The many shapes of extremism," April 8) advances the erroneous notion that extremism is equally distributed among the three

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