Mere Rhetoric: More Democrats Repeat Anti-Semitic Canards, Embrace Particularly Anti-Semitic Sounding Parts Of Walt And Mearsheimer

Three times means it's is a trend. Statements about Jewish money and dual loyalty are now more or less officially on the spectrum of things Democratic politicians say. Some Democratic political will talk about how Walt And Mearsheimer are brave for saying that Jews (and those poor Christians that Jews have corrupted) are leading the US to war. Other Democratic politicians will condemn them. Big tent.

Senior Democratic Congressman James Moran accuses rich Jews of having dual loyalty and undermining the US and Democratic reactions range from muted to carefully congratulatory. No worries though. It's not like he's advising one of their lead Presidential candidates. That's a different Democrat:

Concerns have been raised among Israel supporters following the appointment of a controversial veteran political advisor by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Last week, Obama introduced Zbigniew Brzezinski as "one of our most outstanding thinkers" during a policy speech on the Iraq war. Brzezinski, selected by Obama to advise him on foreign policy affairs, has taken a highly critical stance towards Israel in the past, and has defended an academic attack on the American Jewish lobby which has been branded by some as being anti-Semitic. He has previously served as a national security advisor to President Jimmy Cater. Brzezinki's appointment immediately came under fire from Harvard law professor Alan Dershowiz, who was quoted by the Politico website as saying: "It is a tremendous mistake for Barack Obama to select as a foreign policy adviser the one person in public life who has chosen to support a bigoted book."

(1) Forget the Walt And Mearsheimer stuff. The guy in charge of American national security under Carter should have one job and one job only - going door to door in America saying "I'm sorry I lost Iran to Islamofascism and established a policy of appeasement that led to the war of our time."

(2) At least he hasn't blamed "New York money people" for undermining American national security. That's a third very prominent Democrat who did that.

(3) If Walt and Mearsheimer are so sophisticated and not at all anti-Semitic, why is it that the people who appropriate them - and we're talking elected representatives and prominent intellectuals, not David Duke - keep picking the most anti-Semitic sounding parts of their work to defend? This is about Moran and Wes Clark here, not Brzezinki. Brzezinki is much more careful)

Nice to see that Democratic Jews have managed to leverage their slavish and almost pathetic loyalty t the Democratic Party. Old line: you may be able to vote for Democrats on social justice grounds, but at least be honest enough to admit that you're empowering an rabidly anti-Israel base to put pressure on genuinely anti-Israel politicians via entrenched anti-Israel diplomatic and legislative institutions. New line: you're voting for anti-Semites.

Not that this will do anything to dent the inexplicable devotion that American Jews have to the Democratic Party. The combination of inertia and banality - to say nothing of the most insipid kind of fashionable LA Times "oh it's such a complicated cycle of violence" nonsense - appears to have firm control over that particularly sophisticated part of the electorate.

References:
* I Am Beginning To Sense A Trend [Red State]
* Obama advisor raises concerns [YNet]
* MR Has A Question For Democratic Jews: Are You Fucking Retarded? [MR]
* Why Don't Jewish Democrats Care That Their Party Hired A Radical Anti-Semitic Imam? [MR]

Previously:
* Obama: "I'm Not Saying Israel Should Have To Take Risks For Peace, But..."
* Democrat Bill Richardson: James Baker Should Be The US's Envoy To Israel
* This Week's Litany Of Reasons Why Democratic Jews Are Either Anti-Israel Or Lying To Themselves

Cross-posted to:
* Israpundit