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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; The Nation</title>
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		<title>Anti-Israel Leftist Cited by Anti-Semitic Killer Mocked Idea that American Jews are At Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leftist Anti-Israel journalist Max Blumenthal, who is affiliated with The Nation, ridiculed the idea that American Jews are an at risk population.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/blumenthal-kansas-city.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-223457" alt="blumenthal kansas city" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/blumenthal-kansas-city-450x241.jpg" width="450" height="241" /></a></p>
<p>Blumenthal, whose attacks on Israel and Jews were described as anti-Semitic even by many on the left, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kansas-city-anti-semitic-shooter-inspired-by-leftist-anti-israel-demagogue-max-blumenthal/">and whose work was allegedly cited by the Kansas City killer </a>and has been mentioned hundreds of times on Neo-Nazi forums such as Stormfront and VNN, found the idea that the Jews he was putting at risk would need special security to be ridiculous.</p>
<p>But in fact, despite the constant <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/leftist-dons-hijab-disproves-existence-of-islamophobia/">clamor of a mythical Islamophobia</a>,<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4224/another-hate-crimes-report-contradicts-islamist?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter"> American Jews are far more likely to be at risk</a> than Muslims.</p>
<p>Anti-Israel and anti-Semitic demagogues like Max Blumenthal spread hate toward Jews around the world and then mock the idea that the people they target will be attacked by some of their readers and viewers.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to seriously examine the intersection between Neo-Nazi groups and the left&#8217;s New Anti-Semitism characterized by hatemongers like Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time for The Nation and other outlets that publish hatemongers like Blumenthal to do some serious soul-searching about their role in the killings.</p>
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		<title>Communist Sympathizer &#8220;The Nation&#8221; Magazine Backs Putin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[katrina vanden heuvel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it can't have Stalin, The Nation tries to make do with Putin.]]></description>
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<p>The end of the Cold War must have been confusing or perhaps Vladimir still has some KGB connections from The Nation&#8217;s fellow traveling days because no sooner did Putin invade Ukraine than its editor, publisher and godmother, Katrina vanden Heuvel, came out banging the drum for Vlad the Invader.</p>
<p>Katrina vanden Heuvel&#8217;s twitter feed quickly filled with rants about Republican warmongers and various justifications for Putin. Heuvel&#8217;s husband, Stephen F. Cohen penned an article for The Nation accusing the media of targeting Putin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/03/the-realists-misjudged-ukraine.html">James Kirchik described Cohen&#8217;s</a> piece as &#8220;one of the most slavish defenses of Putinism.&#8221; It might equally be described as &#8220;Leave Putin Alone!&#8221;.</p>
<p>In the grand style of the old Commie apologists, Cohen wrote, &#8220;In August, Putin virtually saved Obama’s presidency by persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to eliminate his chemical weapons. Putin then helped to facilitate Obama’s heralded opening to Iran. Should not Obama himself have gone to Sochi—either out of gratitude to Putin, or to stand with Russia’s leader against international terrorists who have struck both of our countries?&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s that last line that is telltale Russian propaganda and out of place in The Nation, which is favorably disposed to international terrorists.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Katrina vanden Heuvel was dividing her time on Twitter between shrieking about Arizona&#8217;s religious freedom bill as homophobic and urging the US to work together with Putin on the Ukraine. If Katrina saw anything contradictory about it, she wasn&#8217;t letting on.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Former Amb.Jack Matlock/&#8221; So far as violating sovereignty is concerned,Russia could point out that the U.S. invaded Panama 2 arrest Noriega&#8221;</p>
<p>— Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/statuses/440250425120288768">March 2, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Do these armchair interventionists really want West to take ownership of Ukrainian economy on brink of collapse?</p>
<p>— Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/statuses/439411706390118401">February 28, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>These rightwing rodeo warmongers don&#8217;t have principles. They arerank hypocrites re intl law &amp; intervention&#8211; always ready to take down Prez.</p>
<p>— Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/statuses/440692328588926976">March 4, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then she repeatedly tweeted a link to her old article justifying Putin&#8217;s invasion of Georgia because at least The Nation is consistent in supporting Moscow dictators and their invasions of foreign countries.</p>
<p>Finally Katrina penned a Washington Post op-ed which put the blame for Putin&#8217;s invasion on Obama. Apparently Putin&#8217;s KGB cred still makes him redder than Obama despite his lack of allegiance to the left&#8217;s economic agenda.</p>
<blockquote><p>Let’s all take a deep breath before we commit our limited treasure and prestige to an unknown and still unsettled leadership in a country on Russia’s border, harbor to its fleet, that has had a fragile independent existence for barely 20 years.</p></blockquote>
<p>Only 20 years. Why it&#8217;s not even a real country. Hint, hint, say no more. It&#8217;s a familiar pretext considering that it&#8217;s how Molotov justified Stalin&#8217;s invasion of Poland.</p>
<p>The more things change, the more The Nation stays the same.</p>
<blockquote><p>Some history would also serve us well if we’re to understand fast-moving developments. The United States is reaping the bitter fruit of a deeply flawed post-Cold War settlement that looks more like Versailles than it does Bretton Woods, and that settlement was made even worse by the United States’ violation of the settlement by deciding to enlarge NATO and pursue other triumphalist policies aimed at isolating Russia and ignoring Russian interests.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you believe the left, Putin isn&#8217;t the real villain here, NATO is.</p>
<blockquote><p> Americans across the political spectrum will not be eager to send billions of dollars to Kiev while we are starving investment in education, Head Start and other vital programs here at home.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure that Katrina feels the same way about sending billions of dollars to Pakistan, Jordan and Brunei. Oddly the left&#8217;s foreign aid critiques are rarely universal. When it&#8217;s convenient, they suddenly want to keep the money here.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a Western media culture that largely disdains context or history, Putin has been made the villain in the piece. But Russia has legitimate security concerns in its near-neighbor. The Russian fear is far less about economic relations with the European Union (Russia is a major source of energy for the Europeans) than about the further extension of NATO to its borders. A hostile Ukraine might displace Russian bases in the Black Sea, harbor the U.S. fleet and provide a home to NATO bases.</p></blockquote>
<p>Putin isn&#8217;t the villain here. He&#8217;s just terrified that the Yankee Devils will invade Moscow. Who can blame him?</p>
<blockquote><p>Neoconservatives, politicians and frustrated Cold Warriors filling armchairs in the outdated “strategic” think tanks that litter Washington will continue to howl at the moon. But U.S. policy should be run by the sober. The president would be well advised to investigate whether the European Union, Russia and the United States can join together to preserve Ukraine’s territorial unity; to support new and free elections; and to agree to allow Ukraine to be part of both the European Union and Russian customs union, while reaffirming the pledge that NATO will not extend itself into Ukraine.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;ll be just like Yalta. Speaking of which&#8230; let&#8217;s<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-nation-of-tyranny-lovers/"> take a little flashback to The Nation&#8217;s past</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In 1936, as the Great Purge was underway and the Moscow Trials were getting started, the leftist magazine had declared that “[t]here can be no doubt that dictatorship in Russia is dying and that a new democracy is slowly being born.”</p>
<p>In 1946, after even much of the American left had broken with the Soviet Union, Walter Duranty used The Nation’s pages to describe Stalin’s latest purge as “a general cleaning out of the cobwebs and mess which accumulate in any house when its occupants are so deeply preoccupied with something else that they have no time to keep it in order.”</p>
<p>When the Soviet Union began to gobble up Eastern Europe a second time, Kirchwey said that America should accept the fall of Europe into darkness. “Peace and prosperity will be more than secure in America if we accept the process of revolution in Europe and the East instead of subsidizing resistance to it.”</p>
<p>In the 70s, Chomsky’s denial of the Cambodian genocide appeared in The Nation. “In the first place, is it proper to attribute deaths from malnutrition and disease to Cambodian authorities?” he asked.</p>
<p>And staying true to totalitarianism to the last, when Chavez died, an article in The Nation suggested that “the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasn’t authoritarian enough.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Communist regimes may fall, but The Nation never changes. If it can&#8217;t have Stalin, The Nation tries to make do with Putin.</p>
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		<title>Michelle Goldberg&#8217;s Anti-Israel Freakout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The majority of American Jews are not committed to destroying Israel]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_219763" style="width: 524px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IMG_8567.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-219763 " alt="from ZombieTime" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IMG_8567.jpg" width="514" height="490" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text"><a href="http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/">from ZombieTime</a></p></div>
<p>Fresh from complaining about angry black people on Twitter, The Nation&#8217;s Michelle Goldberg turned her fire on Israel and American Jews.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/jews-who-abandon-judaism-abandon-israel/">discussed by Ronn Torossian</a> at Front Page, Goldberg wrote about a &#8220;Pro-Israel Freakout.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Israel lobby appears to be panicking,&#8221; Michelle Goldberg triumphantly wrote. What does this great panicked freakout consist of?</p>
<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage cancelled a talk by New Republic senior editor John Judis about his new book, Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli conflict, deeming it too controversial.</p>
<p>Then, yesterday, news came that a different institution, the Jewish Museum of New York, was scrapping a talk on Kafka by BDS supporter Judith Butler, who pulled out amid a pro-Israel uproar.</p></blockquote>
<p>BDS stands for a boycott of Israel. Judis&#8217; book is a dishonest work of botched propaganda that others Jews while completely ignoring the rights of Middle Eastern Jewish refugees, as I discussed a few weeks ago in <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-colonialism-of-the-anti-israel-left/">The Colonialism of the Anti-Israel Left</a>.</p>
<p>Also the panicked freakout apparently consists of two mainstream Jewish institutions canceling appearances by liars and bigots. When Nation approved activists cause the cancellation of an event, they celebrate, and Michelle Goldberg calls it a victory, not a freakout.</p>
<p>When BDS hysteria leads to a popular musician canceling a tour in Israel because she doesn&#8217;t want to deal with death threats on Facebook, Goldberg calls that a win, not a loss. So why is the cancellation of two events involving anti-Jewish extremists considered a freakout by the activist Jewish community?</p>
<p>Goldberg mentions the Avi Goldwasser documentary taking on J Street, &#8220;<a href="http://thejstreetchallenge.com/">The J Street Challenge: The Seductive Allure of Peace in Our Time</a>&#8221; and claims it &#8220;smears the liberal pro-Israel, pro-peace group J Street as dupes of crazed anti-Semites.&#8221;</p>
<p>Smears, dupes, crazed. It sounds like Michelle Goldberg is the one panicking and freaking out.</p>
<p>&#8220;American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal, and it’s increasingly difficult to reconcile liberalism with actually manifest Zionism. Particularly among younger Jews, the cutting edge debate isn’t between AIPAC and J Street—it’s between J Street and BDS,&#8221; Michelle Goldberg writes. But if that&#8217;s really so, then why bother ranting about Avi Goldwasser? The anti-Israel left has won. All that&#8217;s left is to collect the genocide at the back door.</p>
<p>Considering that J Street has welcomed BDS groups in, there is no debate. J Street and BDS are two sides of the same coin.</p>
<p>Ironically, The Nation was once a strong supporter of Israel. Even the majority of liberal Jews remain pro-Israel. J Street is an invention of the left. The debate between J Street and BDS is taking place on the left, not among mainstream liberal Jews.</p>
<p>The President of AIPAC is a liberal Obama backer. AIPAC is as right wing as the New York Times.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s possible that Michelle Goldberg lives in a bubble and actually believes that J Street, a group with no real base in the Jewish community, funded by wealthy 1 percenter Wall Street donors looking to push their agenda, is an issue for most American Jews. I hate to disappoint Michelle Goldberg, but most American Jews have never heard of it. They&#8217;ve heard of BDS from their local Federation paper. And they&#8217;re not for it.</p>
<p>Michelle Goldberg talks as if the difference between J Street and AIPAC is that the former supports a Two State Solution and the latter doesn&#8217;t. Goldberg is lying and she knows it. AIPAC lobbyists first brought Palestinian Authority reps to Capitol Hill. AIPAC supports a Two State Solution. It&#8217;s J Street that is letting One State Solution and BDS advocates committed to destroying Israel through the door.</p>
<p>Goldberg&#8217;s anti-Israel allies are committed to pretending that they are the future even though their organizations represent the same narrow constituency that Elmer Berger&#8217;s anti-Israel groups a few generations ago. The left keeps pretending that their latest incarnation of the American Council for Judaism is going to sink the Jewish State.</p>
<p>The majority of American Jews are not committed to destroying Israel nor are they interested in joining front groups like J Street for those who are. And that&#8217;s not going to change no matter how much cash corrupt</p>
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		<title>The Nation Blames Republicans Because It Can&#8217;t Pay its Postal Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives forced the Post Office rate hike that will cost The Nation an additional $120,272]]></description>
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<p>The Nation magazine&#8217;s continued existence is proof that capitalism works. Not because it&#8217;s capitalist, but because it&#8217;s a pathetic failure, meandering along year after year, mostly unread, constantly begging for money, always unable to pay its bills, despite its wealthy owners.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=211090">it&#8217;s the fault of the Republicans</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Nation is facing a crippling hike in postal fees that’s going to cost $120,272 that we simply do not have.</p>
<p>When House Republicans aren’t shutting down the government, they’re trying to gut funding for essential programs and services. Legislators like Congressman Darrel Issa and other conservatives helped force the Post Office into requesting an emergency rate hike — one that will cost The Nation an additional $120,272 every year.</p></blockquote>
<p>Postal rates go up because it costs money to deliver things, like dead tree print magazines full of crazy lies, that exist only for the social status of the granddaughter of the founders of MCA.</p>
<p>If only it wasn&#8217;t for the Republicans, I&#8217;m sure that the postal workers, like the Nation&#8217;s interns, would be happy to work for free. But wait&#8230; in a stunning counterrevolutionary move,<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/all/nation-interns-write-letter-the-editor"> the interns also wanted to be paid</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Interns at progressive magazine The Nation have found a new venue for salary negotiations: the magazine’s own letters to the editor section. The latest issue of The Nation, dated August 19-26, features a letter to the editor from 12 recent former interns, asking that future interns be better paid.</p>
<p>“Likewise, recruiting more interns from public universities and community colleges would enable organic intellectuals from the working class to redefine our nation’s public conversation.</p></blockquote>
<p>The filthy capitalist swine. They should feel privileged to work at The Nation. They&#8217;re probably secret Republicans reading Ayn Rand inside their copies of Chris Hedges and Robert Reich.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the organic minority intellects at community colleges and public universities are even less likely to work for free, being filthy capitalist swines as well, leaving The Nation in a quandary.</p>
<p>How will The Nation possibly pay down its $120,272 postal fees?</p>
<p>Richard Foos, a member of the Nation Institute&#8217;s Board of Trustees, was one of the Patriotic Millionaires calling for tax hikes. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1722">Margery Tabankin</a>, a protege of Saul Alinsky, is a major Hollywood fundraiser and heads Barbara Streisand&#8217;s foundation.  Lorraine Sheinberg is the wife of Hollywood executive Sid Sheinberg.</p>
<p>Perhaps one of these nice people could help The Nation pay the nice postal workers? Or perhaps The Nation, taking inspiration from the great Socialist economics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans, can develop a 5-year-plan that will take into account such things as postal rates when selling subscriptions to the magazine&#8230; the way that capitalist publications like Rolling Stone and The Daily Worker manage to do.</p>
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		<title>Max Goes Mad Over Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 04:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nation teams up with the Hamas Book-of-the-Month club.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/blumenthal-560x280.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209867" alt="blumenthal-560x280" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/blumenthal-560x280.gif" width="263" height="195" /></a>In 1948, <i>The Nation</i> <a href="http://emperor.vwh.net/history/br.htm">featured a column about</a> the growing conflict between Israel and the Arab powers which warned that “The strength of the [Arab] league is based on the suppression of all progressive movements and civil rights at home”</p>
<p>That was then.</p>
<p>Now The Nation Institute has decided to publish <i>Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i>, a book which the magazine’s own reviewer, Eric Alterman, no friend of Israel, <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/bds-movement-distilled-when-israeli-soldiers-not-raping-arab-women-is-racist/">wrote could have been published by</a> the “Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club.”</p>
<p>But not all the reviews were bad.</p>
<p>Glenn Greenwald, who defended Hamas, called it, “eye-opening and stunningly insightful.” Stephen Walt, who claimed that the Jews controls America (in a thesis he originally published in the house organ of the Saudi Lobby), wished Blumenthal could write for the New York Times.</p>
<p>Charles Glass, who once wrote that “Gaddafi could learn much about crowd control from Israel’s security forces”, praised it; as did Charles H. Manekin, who has written that boycotting the Jewish State “may be the best hope for liberal Zionists who haven’t given in entirely to ethnic loyalties.”</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> should be recommended to liberals who haven’t “given in” to their shameful ethnic loyalties and know that Israel is worse than Gaddafi, Hamas and Assad put together and must be boycotted to within an inch of its life (a policy popularized by the Arab League and Saudi Lobby). It not only makes a great Nakba present, but can also be wrapped in a brick and tossed through the window of a Jewish store.</p>
<p>The perfect target audience for <i>Goliath</i> would be <i>The Finkler Question’</i>s Merton Kugle who &#8220;had ruined his spine and all but worn out his eyes&#8221; searching for racist Israeli goods at the supermarket to boycott and had taken to shoplifting Israeli produce and carrying it around in his coat pockets until it rotted.</p>
<p>Kugle may be fictional, but his real-life counterparts make up most of the small numbers of protesters denouncing Israel, alongside younger recruits from various campus Communist societies. Their academic careers create the illusion that they represent some larger consensus outside their airless rooms where they debate how to best destroy a country that they know, despite their hate, will outlive them.</p>
<p>These are the old men with clenched teeth and dead eyes who are always on the lookout for Israeli produce to pocket and the next enfant terrible of Jewish Anti-Semitism to promote.</p>
<p>A few years ago it was Peter Beinart. Now it’s Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>Blumenthal’s<i> Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i> has little life in it and a great deal of loathing. It’s a cheap screed full of Jew-baiting chapter titles like “How To Kill Goyim And Influence People” that uses some of the narrative techniques of journalism, but would probably even be rejected by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club for hating too much.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> isn’t really about Israel. Like everything that Max Blumenthal writes; it’s about him. In <i>Goliath</i>’s lopsided version of reality, David isn’t really the oppressed Muslim terrorist firing anti-tank rockets at Israel school buses or killing Jewish babies with sniper rifles.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal, privileged son of Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton aide, is the David who battles the Israeli Goliath.</p>
<p>Blumenthal braves the perils of an Israeli airport “With bated breath I wait for the loud thump of the metal visa stamp when it meets the pages of my passport,” lectures Israeli leftists on everything they’re doing wrong by not listening to him and singlehandedly “loosens the blockade of suppression of thought and discussion on the subject of Israel-Palestine.”</p>
<p>That’s quite a feat.</p>
<p>Blumenthal begins <i>Goliath</i> by talking about himself and never stops. Even as he babbles on about his privilege and entitlement, it never seems to occur to him that his entire narrative is an exercise in both. Max Blumenthal attributes his “privilege” to being an Ashkenazi Jew in the racist Zionist devil state. Most sensible readers will put it down to being the spoiled brat offspring of an important father.</p>
<p><i>Goliath </i>exists in an alternate universe in which Israel isn’t fighting terrorism, but going on a killing spree motivated by racism, religious fanaticism and a desire to eat puppies. If Max Blumenthal were reporting on WW2, the story would begin with an armada of American bombers flown by demented murderers hopped up on war propaganda bombing the unarmed and innocent National Socialists of Berlin.</p>
<p>And that’s exactly how <i>Goliath</i> begins, as an Israeli F-16 “roared across the sky” and launched a missile at a bunch of Hamas terrorists who lie “writhing in pain, their uniforms stained with the flesh and blood of their comrades.”</p>
<p>From the first page, it’s obvious where Max Blumenthal’s sympathies lie. It’s also obvious that he missed his calling writing for soap operas.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> isn’t just overwrought; it’s downright hysterical. Like a werewolf, Abbas “howls” in the throes of “militant histrionics.” The even eviler Netanyahu “stumps through fever swamps” as an “apocalyptic” “prophet of doom” and Israelis cheer as their army “exacts blood vengeance on the enemy.”</p>
<p>Like a street corner demagogue, Max Blumenthal blares everything at his shrillest pitch, certain that he will lose his audience the moment they begin to think about what he is saying.  And so the wars of a region that go back centuries and millennia are reduced to Blumenthal’s bad suspense novel in which nothing exists except the moment and Jewish villains borrowed from Goebbels prance on stage.</p>
<p>It’s the same hysterical tone of Blumenthal’s <i>Republican Gomorrah</i> transplanted to Israel. Shrillness is the only journalistic trick in Blumenthal’s book. He turns up the volume to eleven to compensate for his inadequacies as a journalist and a writer. And all the while he accuses the Israelis, in the shrillest tones, of being shrill murderous hysterics who live on a diet of Arab blood and murderous biblical passages.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> is tiresome, which may be one reason why even many anti-Zionists are panning it. It’s too nakedly cynical, too obviously a screed pandering to the worst impulses of the Merton Kugles and too immersed in its own hatefulness to be taken seriously by anyone else.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal revels in the political pornography of violence, lovingly describing every mutilated corpse and announcing each political development with all the subtlety of a car alarm. But subtract the hysterics and morgue photos and all that’s left<i> is</i> a rant with the context deliberately stripped away.</p>
<p>Every negative item that fits Blumenthal’s agenda is assembled into a distorted narrative that has a funhouse mirror relationship to reality until David becomes Goliath and Goliath becomes David.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> is the literary equivalent of those bloody photos of children that both sides in a war brandish for propaganda purposes. They’re awful, but they don’t actually tell you anything except that someone is playing on your emotions instead of giving you the whole story.</p>
<p>Despite Blumenthal’s pretense of telling a new story while “loosening thought blockades,” <i>Goliath</i> is full of the same Israel-bashing stories that appear on a regular basis in the mainstream media.</p>
<p>When the BBC and <i>Time </i><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0621/Did-a-Jerusalem-court-really-sentence-a-dog-to-death-by-stoning">can publish stories based</a> on a completely false report that an Israeli Rabbinical court had sentenced a dog to be stoned, it’s obvious that no malignant story about Israel can fail to find a place in the media.</p>
<p>What Max Blumenthal brings to the table in <i>Goliath</i> is not journalism, but uncompromising hatred for Israel. In a media environment where every fake &#8220;Jew Stones Dog&#8221; story goes to the top of the heap, the fake journalists like Max can only distinguish themselves by setting aside the pretenses of journalism.</p>
<p>And that’s what Max Blumenthal does.</p>
<p>Blumenthal knows his audience well. It’s those bitter old men with coat pockets full of stolen rotting fruit who want the raw product. And it’s the Eric Altermans, the liberals who are hostile to Israel, who are eager to shine a light on him so that they seem more reasonable by comparison.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal isn’t reasonable. He’s a coiled-up ball of hate in the way that only a malignant narcissist can be. Max hates Israel for the same reason that he hates any number of things that aren’t him. Israel’s real crime is that it exists and stands in the way of his career objectives.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> is the cynical work of a cynical man. Blumenthal is selling hate while accusing Israelis of the same thing. He has blatantly promoted genocide in a public appearance while accusing Israelis of lusting for blood. His book plays on the worst emotions of the worst people.</p>
<p>And that makes <i>Goliath</i> into a book that has almost as much contempt for its readers as it does for Israel.</p>
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		<title>The Resident Anti-Semite of &#8216;The Nation&#8217; and UC Santa Barbara</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Richard Falk is a man who <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/beneath-contempt-article-1.1326653">blames the Boston marathon terrorist attack on Israel</a> (and America) – and shouldn’t be employed by government organizations, media or academic institutions.  That same man has claimed that the 9/11 World Trade Center attack was an American government conspiracy.  He posted on his website a blood-soaked dog eating bones, urinating on lady justice – wearing a yarmulke with a Jewish star.</p>
<p>While Richard Falk’s views are fitting (and probably required for his job) as “United Nations Human Rights Council Special Ambassador,” this is clearly conduct which should not be permitted by others. Falk’s most recent offensive comments saw him this week saying that if renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) fail, the UN General Assembly should turn to the International Court of Justice and seek an opinion on “the legal consequences of Israel&#8217;s occupation of land claimed by the Palestinians.&#8221;  An anti-Semite suggests if one anti-Israel forum doesn’t hit Israel hard enough, let’s go to another.</p>
<p>While it is far from shocking to see anti-Israel and anti-American forces at work in the United Nations, one wonders how his other employers’ continue to employ him.</p>
<p>Falk is a member of the editorial board of The Nation, which claims to be “the flagship of the left,” the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States.  (Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said, “Once again, United Nations official Richard Falk has spewed more mean-spirited, anti-Semitic rhetoric, this time blaming the attacks in Boston on President Obama and the State of Israel. The United Nations should be ashamed to even be associated with such an individual.”)  If the UN should be ashamed, then why not The Nation? How can anyone allow someone with such horrific views to sit on their board? Lest one forget, for many years The Nation accepted advertisements from the Institute for Historical Review, which is devoted to Holocaust denial.</p>
<p>Richard Falk is a professor emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University, and listed as a “Visiting Distinguished Professor” at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) a public research university.  While the school’s website informs visitors that the school is ranked as a top 10 among all American public universities, any so-called awards should be marred by <a href="http://www.global.ucsb.edu/orfaleacenter/fellows/Falk.html">highlighting Falk on the site</a>.  (<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/nichole-hungerford/suppressing-speech-at-uc-santa-barbara/2/">As David Horowitz has noted, there’s plenty of free speech at UCSB</a> – except when it comes to conservative issues, or condemning “hatred of Israel and of Jews.”) Distinguished?</p>
<p>Falk has <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/171995">compared Israelis to Nazis</a> and criticized Israel for the gall of keeping a terrorist, Islamic Jihad leader in protective custody. (Of course, if he were released and placed a bomb, Israel could be blamed.).</p>
<p>The United Kingdom, in a statement by its UN mission, noted last year (before this most recent incident) that this was &#8220;the third time we have had cause to express our concerns about Mr. Falk’s anti-Semitic remarks. It is important to the U.K. that special rapporteurs uphold the highest standards in their work and we have twice previously made clear that remarks by Mr. Falk were unacceptable.&#8221; United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Falk’s statements “undermine the credibility and work of the UN.” One could go on and on and on, but his record is clear. The United Nations Special Rapporteur is a gross and despicable racist and anti-Semite.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://www.ronntorossian.com/">PR firm CEO</a> says immediately, The Nation and The University of California, Santa Barbara should cut all ties to Richard Falk. It is disgraceful to employ – and encourage – and pay someone with viewpoints like these.</p>
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		<title>Fear and Loathing of Reality at &#8216;The Nation&#8217;</title>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Don&#8217;t miss David Horowitz&#8217;s and Robert Spencer&#8217;s pamphlet, <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=OGTAUUU8UWRC" target="_blank">Islamophobia: Thoughtcrime of the Totalitarian Future</a>, which documents how the very term “Islamophobia” is an invention of the Muslim Brotherhood designed to intimidate and discredit its critics.</strong></p>
<p><em>The Nation</em> has long been the flagship of the American left.  This, despite its small circulation and, even more to the point, despite its long and disgraceful record of supporting, apologizing for, and whitewashing totalitarian ideology on the apparent premise that even the most murderous tyranny is preferable to democratic capitalism.  As David Horowitz <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=4997">put it</a> quite succinctly in 2006, we are speaking here of a “propaganda mill,” pure and simple, whose editors, it is no exaggeration to say, “cheered [Stalin's victims] to their graves during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.”</p>
<p>Horowitz explained how <em>The Nation </em>addressed those purges: “In a 1946 article&#8230;Walter Duranty explained to The Nation’s progressive readers that &#8216;purge&#8217; meant &#8216;to cleanse&#8217; in Russian, and that a house cleaning was all Stalin intended. In Duranty’s memorable words, Stalin had launched &#8216;a general cleaning out of the cobwebs and mess which accumulate in any house when its occupants are so deeply preoccupied with something else that they have no time to keep it in order.&#8217;”  As Horowitz reminds us, “At the height of this house cleaning, Stalin was killing 20,000 Russian citizens a month. But according to The Nation (in 1946 as today) the main danger facing humanity was the incipient fascism of the West.”</p>
<p>All of which is highly useful by way of background when reading “Fear and  Loathing of Islam,” an <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/168383/fear-and-loathing-islam?rel=emailNation">article</a> by one Moustafa Bayoumi which appears in <em>The Nation</em>&#8216;s<em> </em>July 2-9 issue.  It has often been noted that the hard left, denied its beacon of progressive hope by the fall of Soviet Communism, has since found, in Islam, an admirable ally in the struggle against the West.  This is certainly the case with <em>The Nation.  </em>It did not dare celebrate 9/11, but it was very much at the forefront of the we-had-it-coming crowd; some readers may recall a notorious <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/put-out-no-flags">piece</a> by <em>Nation </em>columnist Katha Pollitt, published in the September 20, 2011, issue, in which she explained why, after the terrorist attacks, she refused to allow her daughter, who at the time was a high-school student, to fly the American flag outside the window of their New York apartment, not far from the scene of the Twin Towers&#8217; incineration.  For Old Glory, as Pollitt explained patiently to both her kid and her readers, “stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.”</p>
<p>Now, as I say, along comes this Bayoumi article, which presents itself as something of a major statement, not just by Bayoumi but presumably by <em>The Nation </em>itself, about attitudes toward Islam in the United States.  The premise is straightforward: American Muslims, with exceedingly few exceptions, are ordinary people who want to live ordinary lives – and who are being punished and demonized for it.  <em>Ordinary</em> is, indeed, the <em>mot du jour </em>here.  Bayoumi slams a New York Police Department report which notes that, in addition to mosques, young Muslim men in the U.S. are radicalized in “cafes, cab driver hangouts, flophouses, prisons, student associations, non-governmental organizations, hookah (water pipe) bars, butcher shops and book stores” – “in other words,” writes Bayoumi, “precisely the places where ordinary life happens.”  Asks Bayoumi: “What happens when ordinary life becomes grounds for suspicion without a hint of wrongdoing&#8230;?”  Using the TLC series <em>All-American Muslim </em>as his prime example, he complains that “When media portrayals of everyday American Muslim life are produced, the very ordinariness is attacked as a lie&#8230;..The only thing accepted as &#8216;normal&#8217; for a Muslim is to act like an extremist.  Ordinary Muslim folk appearing to live ordinary Muslim lives?  That&#8217;s plain suspicious.”  Toward the end of his piece, Bayoumi states: “An ordinary life is more meaningful than it sounds.  It signifies being able to live your life as you define yourself, not as others define you, and being able to assume a life free of unwarranted government prying.  In fact, ordinariness is the foundation of an open society, because it endows citizens with a private life and demands that the government operate openly – not the other way around, which is how closed societies operate.”</p>
<p>The flaw in this argument, of course, is that Islam is <em>not </em>about leading a “private life.”  As has frequently been observed in the years since 9/11, the Koran does not instruct believers to render under Caesar that which is Caesar&#8217;s and unto God that which is God&#8217;s.  No, under Islam, what&#8217;s Caesar&#8217;s is God&#8217;s too, and you&#8217;d better render it pronto, or else.  Islam, in other words, is not simply a religion of private devotion; it is a comprehensive system that dictates every detail of the social order.  For Muslims living in secular democratic societies, consequently, the religion of their fathers is a stunted thing, constrained by the very liberties that the rest of us look upon as providing freedom from constraint.  Islam has a name for such societies: they are the “House of War,” because it is incumbent upon true believers to struggle against their non-Islamic polities; not until these societies are brought under Islamic control – brought, that is, into the House of Islam – can there be true peace.  Bayoumi speaks about “closed societies,” but it hardly needs pointing out that the great majority of the “closed societies” of our time are Islamic.</p>
<p>For me, the key sentence in Bayoumi&#8217;s piece is this one: “Every group has its loonies.”  That sentence is more than just a ridiculous joke; it&#8217;s an affront to the intelligence of everyone who damn well knows the difference between Islam and other “groups,” religious or otherwise, and an insult to the memory of everyone who has ever lost his or her life in a jihadist attack.  Yes, every group has its loonies.  But only Islam has the doctrine of jihad.  Virtually every religion has its points of tension with the idea of individual liberty, and there are, admittedly, other faiths besides Islam that have a ways to go before they manage to coexist perfectly with modernity.  But few of us are lying awake at night worrying about Hinduism or Shinto or Buddhism – let alone Unitarians or Quakers.  The difference, in a word, is jihad – an inextricable element of the Islamic faith.  The absurdity of Bayoumi&#8217;s mantra about “ordinariness” is that in Islam there is nothing more ordinary – nothing more normative, more fundamental, more essential a part of the religion than the concept of jihad.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hard-Left magazine’s special issue demonizes those resisting Islamic terror.]]></description>
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<p>The <em>Nation</em>’s fondness for the enemies of America and the West is nothing new. Over a period of fifty years, its record is consistent: The <em>Nation</em> supported Communism through the Stalin and post-Stalin eras, and even offered comradely support to Maoism and Castroism. Thus its new role as shill for Islamic supremacists and the Muslim Brotherhood is really not new at all. Throughout its post-World War II history, the <em>Nation</em> has always had a soft spot for totalitarians who trample on human rights, while claiming to be the foremost defender of those rights.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the <em>Nation</em> is a Johnny-come-lately to the “Islamophobia” game. Its special issue is preceded by the smearing of critics of Islamic supremacism by Hamas-linked CAIR, the Marxist retreads at FAIR, and the Islamic supremacist-infiltrated Center for American Progress. The only innovation in the <em>Nation</em>’s gutter attack on those who have had the temerity to stand up for the human rights trampled on in the Islamic world is the new low achieved by Max Blumenthal in his hit piece on philanthropist Nina Rosenwald, who has given a large part of her fortune to efforts to defend freedom.</p>
<p>As David Horowitz and I show in our pamphlet, <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=OGTAUUU8UWRC" target="_blank">Islamophobia: Thoughtcrime of the Totalitarian Future</a>, the very term “Islamophobia” is an invention of the Muslim Brotherhood designed to intimidate and discredit its critics. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/11/fbi-statistics-show-that-there-is-no-islamophobia.html" target="_blank">FBI statistics show that there is actually no serious problem of “Islamophobia.”</a> In fact, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8559" target="_blank">many “anti-Muslim hate crimes” have been faked by the very organizations – CAIR in particular – that cry wolf every time an Islamic terrorist is fingered.</a> As a matter of hard statistical fact, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/03/anti-jewish-attacks-70-of-hate-crimes-anti-muslim-attacks-9-of-hate-crimes----senate-to-hold-hearing.html" target="_blank">Jews are eight times more likely than Muslims to be the victims of hate attacks</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Islamic jihadists continue to penetrate our borders and operate in the United States. Recent jihad plotters include Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; Nidal Hasan, the successful Fort Hood jihad mass-murderer; Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas airplane jihad bomber.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, as far as the <em>Nation</em> is concerned, any attention paid to the Islamic jihad against the West is a manifestation of bigotry &#8212; <em>Islamophobia</em>. Genuine bigotry and persecution of innocent people is never excusable, which is why the <em>Nation</em>’s special issue is so repellent. To dismiss concerns about jihad and smear those who oppose it is sinister in the same way that the American progressives who worked for the Soviet Union – and thus betrayed their country &#8212; were sinister.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rejoinder to the Tablet caricature.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/dh-speaking2.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131502" title="dh-speaking2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/dh-speaking2.gif" alt="" width="375" height="242" /></a>Last week an article appeared in the Jewish magazine <em>Tablet</em>, in which I am portrayed as politically “homeless” and depressed, while the David Horowitz Freedom Center is described as long past its “heyday.” The article further alleges that I have come to a point in my life where I feel my efforts as a conservative have been “a waste.” All of these are false allegations made by a writer who is a political leftist, tone deaf and hostile to conservative ideas. As it happens, within the past year I published a book called, <em><a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=DBERMFBVMXYH">A Point in Time</a></em>, which is a summary of my views on life and the battles I have waged and which is also the strongest possible affirmation of the philosophy that underlies my conservative worldview. Far from being abandoned by other conservatives, moreover, I have received the strongest possible endorsement from the reviewers of this book.</p>
<p>The David Horowitz Freedom Center is supported by 100,000 individual donors, which is more than three times the number of its supporters ten years ago. Conservatives who have spoken at events the Center has hosted include four of the contenders for this year’s Republican presidential nomination (Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann and Cain) former president George Bush, his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, his Attorney General John Ashcroft, Senator Marco Rubio, and his colleagues, John McCain, Jon Kyl, Jeff Sessions and others, Speaker John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and Victor Davis Hanson. A recent pamphlet I wrote called <em>Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution</em> has sold half a million copies and has been distributed to another two million. Contrary to the Tablet’s description of the Center as a declining institution it has doubled its revenues in the last ten years and its influence in the conservative movement through its websites Frontpagemag.com and DiscovertheNetworks.org is greater than ever.</p>
<p>I obviously made a serious mistake in judgment, in agreeing to be interviewed by someone who misrepresented what I told him and ignored the evidence that contradicted his distortions. For being so unguarded, I owe an apology to my friends and supporters, several of whom expressed their dismay to me after reading the article. It is partly their concern that has prompted me to set the record straight. But, in a perverse way, I am also appreciative of the opportunity provided by the author of this tedious and hostile piece of writing because he has caused me to look at how embedded in the conservative movement I and my colleagues at the David Horowitz Freedom Center are, and how deeply we are indebted to it as well.</p>
<p>When I received the <em>Tablet</em> request for an interview, I was inclined to say yes because it came from a magazine with which I had a history, and which did occasionally published first-rate conservative writers such as Bret Stephens and Lee Smith. They even published a defense of Nonie Darwish that I submitted when she was attacked by one of their writers. I was also disarmed by the author himself who sent me an email about his intentions:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am a leftist, though not a dogmatic one, and I usually don&#8217;t write directly about politics. For <em>The Nation</em>, I write mostly for the Books and Arts section, which isn&#8217;t nearly as ideologically-driven as the magazine&#8217;s editorial page…. So, we may not find much common ground politically, but that may make for a more stimulating piece. I&#8217;m less interested in debating Islamo-fascism than exploring your work&#8217;s position at the intersection of autobiography, politics, history, manners, and polemic. I think I can do so fairly.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the past, my work has been attacked by leftists who will take a phrase from a fund-raising letter, or a heated polemic and omit its context or distort its meaning to discredit my work. The prospect of a leftist writer distinguishing the intellectual from the polemical in my work looked to me like an opportunity to break through the censorship that leftists had imposed on it.</p>
<p>I could not have been more mistaken. When the article “David Horowitz Is Homeless” appeared, it was apparent that none of its author’s assurances &#8212; interested in the intersection of styles of thought, not interested in scoring political points, will do it fairly &#8212; were sincere. Here is an illustrative example: “If what was once labeled extremism is now mainstream GOP boilerplate,” the author wrote, “then Horowitz deserves at least some of the credit.”</p>
<p>Not only was this a political attack, it was wildly inaccurate in both of its claims. The Republican Party today finds itself defending policies that were once the province of liberal Democrats like John F. Kennedy, specifically capital gains tax cuts, balanced budgets, strong defense budgets, color-blind racial standards and aggressive anti-totalitarian foreign policies. Only an extremist of the left could so mis-label a party that just nominated a former Massachusetts governor as its presidential candidate.</p>
<p>But the author isn’t done. He also wants to pin Republican “extremism” on me – the man whom conservatives have allegedly abandoned:</p>
<blockquote><p>In a widely distributed 2000 pamphlet called <em>The Art of Political War</em>, praised by Karl Rove and endorsed by 35 state Republican party chairmen, Horowitz wrote: “In political warfare you do not fight just to prevail in an argument, but to destroy the enemy’s fighting ability. Republicans often seem to regard political combats as they would a debate with the Oxford Political Union, as though winning depended on rational arguments and carefully articulated principles. But the audience of politics is not made up of Oxford dons, and the rules are entirely different. … Politics is war. Don’t forget it.” If you can remember a time when conservative discourse sounded like an Oxford lecture hall, then you have a sense of how far Horowitz has helped to steer this ship off course.</p></blockquote>
<p>The missing context in this presentation is that the little pamphlet I wrote twelve years ago argued that it is <em>Democrats</em> – not Republicans &#8212; who have transformed the political arena into a combat zone. The pamphlet then urged Republicans to stop behaving as though it wasn’t.</p>
<p>The kernel of truth in the description is that I did remark to the author that Republicans haven’t really heeded my advice. It is true that 35 state party chairman endorsed the pamphlet, but none of them acted on its recommendations. Republicans have come a long way since then – thanks in the main to the emergence of the Tea Party. But they still have a long way to go.</p>
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