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Comment is Free has an interesting piece by Alan Johnson on neoconitis:an all-purpose insult for anyone who still believes that American power is inextricable from global stability and still thinks the muscular anti-totalitarian US interventionism that brought down Slobodan Milosevic has a place.Do read the whole piece.
But while you're about it, take a look at the comments. CiF has become a hot bed of the kind of noxious anti-Americanism which so infects the Left. And with that, as night follows day, comes a large dose of antisemitism, which the Guardian editors always seem happy to leave up. Take this comment, below. I know of two people who emailed to complain about it, but the CiF editors appear not to consider it in any way improper, since as I write it remains in place (I realise that I am giving it wider currency by copying it, but I hope you agree that there's a useful purpose in so doing):Do you guys ever think when you write out all of this propaganda? It doesn't seem like it. You say this stuff about "A cabal controlling the word for Israel" in a dismissive tone, and talk about reading things in a falsetto voice as if it is all ridiculous.
Then you go on to list people in your article for various things. Let's take a look at that list.
Paul Berman - jewish name
Roger Cohen - jewish name
Joe Lieberman - definitely jewish
Adam Michnik - jewish name
Jurgen Habermas - jewish name?
Tony Blair - Zionist tool
George Bush - Zionist tool
Bernard Kouchner - definitely jewish
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So. There is no cabal controlling the world for Israel and jewish people, but half of the people you list in your article are jewish, or their actions over the past 7 years have proved that they work for the zionists.
I am guessing the non jewish names are neocon collaborators who have just not been exposed yet. In a year or 5, we will find out they have connections to some neocon institute somewhere or the other. Or they are married to a jewish person like Kofi Annan is.
That really surprised me. I could never figure out why Kofi Annan was so pro Israel until I found that out. That's far from untypical of the CiF comments section. And it's a useful reminder of the mindset of so much of the Left today.