Thursday, July 8, 2010

The Hatreds of Greenwald and Weiss

Benjamin Kerstein analyzes Glenn Greenwald; Ron Kampeas looks closely at Philip Weiss. All four are Jews, of course, which makes the entire story faintly weird. The more you follow these things, the stronger the impression that absent the Jewish anti-Zionist brigades, in Israel and beyond, the potency of the anti-Israeli legions would be markedly weaker, at least in Europe and North America.

Kerstein makes the plausible comment that Greenwald's methods are the same used by the Holocaust deniers: if the Jews make a claim it has to be false and discounted. Automatically, since their entire narrative is an evil hoax, and everything they say is part of the evil. Kampeas says the hatred shoveled out by Weiss and his ilk is endangering the lives of journalists in the Muslim world. The first allegation is clearly true; the second I'm not in a position to judge.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have been saying this about Greenwald for years and years. But I would point out that Greenwald is coy on the point of being liberal, himself. He claims to be neither liberal nor conservative. More of an anarcho-libertarian absolutist. Keeping in mind though his long association with Matt Hale, Pat Buchanan, Alex Jones, and the Larouche-ites speaks volumes.

Sérgio said...

Yaacov,

Antisemites have this other double standard in which they hold jews are liars (and the shoah must be a hoax, etc); but at the same time they love when anti-jewish jews join in because, by being jews they must be more reliable witnesses about jews being liars!...

Dave said...

Kerstein is a brilliant writer. I have been reading him since his blog the antichomskyite.

RK said...

That Kerstein piece was so spittle-flecked that it was hard even to understand in places. Frankly, it was well below the usual standard for pieces linked to from this blog.

Anonymous said...

Far left anti-Zionist Jews?....seen it all before Yaacov...no different to the Yevsektsiya who did the Communists' dirty work against the Soviet Jews in Stalin's time.....and of course we can go back further in history to the Jews who converted and became persecutors in the service of the Inquisition. We are often our own worst enemies.

Lee Ratner said...

Does anybody know if other minority groups have their equivalent of self-hating Jews? The only group that I could think of with people roughly in the same position is the LBGT community in the United States, where a surprising amount of homophobic politicians and clergy are closeted homosexuals. Besides that, I can't really think of their being self-hating members of of other communities.

Has anybody successfully answered why the self-hating Jew phenomenon exists? There have been more than a few attempts to answer the question but nothing really that persuasive from my opinion.

Barry Meislin said...

What Dave said.

It's unfortunate and discouraging and depressing enough to encounter the level of muck and filth that has pervaded the mainstream media; but Kerstein's courageous decision to wade through the sewers and expose this element for what they are can only be applauded.

I felt unclean reading this unfortunately necessary, and important, piece. I can only imagine what Kerstein must have felt having decided he had to write it.