Posted on 01/13/2007 7:30:23 PM PST by shrinkermd
...The Anti-Defamation League, which has an annual budget of more than $50 million, offers “anti-bias education and diversity training” through its World of Difference Institute; plays a major advocacy role in keeping church and state separate; monitors a vast array of extremist activity...But the league is, in the end, mostly Abe. Foxman is a domineering character who over the years, according to critics, has driven out potential rivals and successors...
....How, then, to explain so one-sided a policy? “The unmatched power,” they argue, “of the Israel lobby.” Mearsheimer and Walt, distinguished figures who teach at the University of Chicago and at Harvard, respectively, note that the Israel lobby is not a cabal but simply a very effective pressure group whose goal is to influence legislators and “to prevent critical comments from getting a fair hearing in the political arena.” Like any other lobby, this one (the authors are speaking... specifically here of Aipac) succeeds at the legislative level “due to its ability to reward legislators and Congressional candidates who support its agenda and to punish those who challenge it.” The lobby dominates media and has established a “commanding presence” in policy institutes, thus ensuring that, with few exceptions — mostly on campus — only one side of the debate can be heard....
....That would be where Abe Foxman comes in. Foxman is an anachronism. The demographic of which he is a member — Holocaust survivor — is rapidly disappearing.
...Jews are now the most widely admired religious group in America, as well as the most successful, and lamented that Jewish leaders — Foxman specifically... Lehrer says that when he raised his view that the A.D.L. had to learn to speak to this new, confident but less affiliated generation of Jews, Foxman dismissed it out of hand
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Not mentioned is that 87% of the Jews voted for Democrat canddiates in the 2006 election and about that number in the 2004 election. This varies some with the high point being Reagan's first try where he received almost half the Jewish vote.
This is a hot issue especially since lately there has been talk of expanding and developing new "settlements" on the West Bank. POTUS has spoken strongly against such "settlements."
Interesting
Foxman is the Jewish Jesse Jackson. But better paid.
Foxman upset many of his colleagues by extending a welcome to Christian conservatives, whose leaders tended to be strongly pro-Israel even as they spoke in disturbing terms of America’s “Christian” identity. Foxman was willing to cut them some slack on issues of social justice, and even of church-state relations, in the name of solidarity toward Israel.
That's odd, I seem to remember Foxman's attitude towards the Christian Right as being somewhat different.
Actually article is a mess.
Does the New York Times have an anti-Christian problem?!
YES!
Not so much an "Idea" but rather what was his fancy.
James Traub
• December 30 -- The Times Remembers Joseph Coors, "Right-Wing Nut"
James Traub marks the death of Joseph Coors Sr., the beer magnate who helped found the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Since Joseph Coors was a right-wing nut as well (and a Bircher to boot), I stuck to Michelob."
October 27 -- Republican Party "Most Extreme" Ever
Contributing writer James Traub rationalizes the Bush-bashing tomes taking over the best-seller lists: "Our political culture has not been infected by some virus from outer space, or from TV. The carrier was Newt Gingrich….Gingrich brought delegitimation to the core of G.O.P. strategy….The politics of delegitimation worked, at least in the short term. Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in 1994…Today's Republican Party is arguably the most extreme--the furthest from the center--of any governing majority in the nation's history."
• July 7 -- Democrats Are Too Good for the World
James Traub writes: “Maybe Democrats are just nicer, but a more philosophical view is that liberals are committed to, are in fact bedeviled by, ideals about process that do not much preoccupy conservatives, at least contemporary ones. Liberals put their faith in such content-neutral principles as free speech, due process, participatory democracy. Is that too lofty?” Ask a campus conservative about liberal love of free speech, or Robert Bork about liberal love of due process.
• October 25 -- More Republican "Extremism" from James Traub
James Traub contributes another column on Republican "extremism" to the Sunday Magazine.
• August 30 -- "Moderate" Traub vs. "Extremist" Republicans
James Traub again portrays himself as a moderate while attacking Republican extremism: "…it is conservative culture, the culture permeating the Bush administration, that is shot through with Sixties moralism and self-righteousness, the calls to ideological purity, the insistence that the other is not merely wrong but illegitimate."
Salon - Dec 20, 2006
James Traub's examination of Kofi Annan reveals a patient and wily leader who managed to outwit John Bolton and elevate the United Nations.
Jan 9, 2007
James Traub, journalist and author: Kofi Annan, peacemaker and consensus seeker, exhausted himself trying to accommodate an administration that seemed quite ...
That's the best description
of Abe Foxman ever. Although
I wonder if Jesse Jackson
has a higher net worth.
That would at least maintain his personal integrity to some degree, but alas, that isn't the case. Abe Foxman is anti-"everything the widows with large inheritances" are against in their weekly kevtching session.
Foxman is scum. However the author is a leftist, who wants to silence any Jew who questions appeasing Islamists.
NY Times tries to silence Jews.
Ole' Abe has pocketed a lot of money spreading his brand of fearmongering over the years.
Yeah, this one must be a bit of a surprise to Abe.
Your charm is overwhelming. So persuasive.
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