"It's probably very difficult to do a clearance on someone in NYC who has a grandfather from Iraq, and has some family members living in Israel, and some here, and some in France.
Doesn't mean they can't do a good job translating for you ~ just that there's not enough money in the world to do a clearance on them."
Nope, the article didn't say that it was only Jews with ancestors from foreign, Arabic, etc. countries who were being excluded from consideration. It said that they weren't hiring Arabic speaking Jews.
Your issue is with the linguistic style of the writer. He said it that way just to provoke you. Nothing more to it than that. The rest of us were discussing the real world of background checks and clearances.