JEWS AND ISRAEL: Zionism and Anti-Semitism; A Strange Alliance Through History

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

JEWS AND ISRAEL: Zionism and Anti-Semitism; A Strange Alliance Through History

It has, for many years, been a tactic of those who seek to silence open debate and discussion of U.S. Middle East policy to accuse critics of. Israel of "anti-Semitism."

In a widely discussed article entitled "J'Accuse" (Commentary, September 1983), Norman Podhoretz charged America's leading journalists, newspapers and television networks with "anti-Semitism" because of their reporting of the war in Lebanon and their criticism of Israel's conduct. Among those so accused were Anthony Lewis of The New York Times, ...

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