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By Max Blumenthal [1] / AlterNet [2]
May 17, 2016
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An article labeling neoconservative movement leader, Fox News pundit and
orchestrator of the #NeverTrump movement William Kristol as a "Renegade Jew
[3]" has sparked a frenzy on online news and social media forums. Written
by David Horowitz, another neoconservative, for the pro-Trump Breitbart
website, the piece trashed Kristol for his plans to back a third party
candidate against Trump, the populist evildoer at the top of the Republican
establishment's political kill list.
The phrase "Renegade Jew" has trended on Twitter for days after the
publication of Horowitz's tirade, with many anti-Trump conservatives echoing
Republican pollster Frank Luntz's positive spin [4]: "To be fair, "Renegade
Jew" sounds remarkably badass." Liberals, meanwhile, touted the Horowitz
attack [5] as evidence of the anti-Semitism unleashed by the Trump campaign,
which has provided fertile soil for grassroots white nationalist organizing.
In almost every case, the commentary on Horowitz's outburst misses the
ironic subtext that explains the origins of the ugly slur: As a leader of
the neoconservative faction that formed in the defense of and in alignment
with Israel's right-wing Likud Party, Kristol himself has been a prime
promoter of the "Renegade Jew" smear, presiding over campaigns to brand
left-wing and liberal Jews as anti-Semitic apostates and demanding they be
treated as pariahs by the community in which he and his ideological fellow
travelers claim to be the authorities.
Kristol's Weekly Standard magazine and the Washington Free Beacon online
tabloid edited by his son-in-law, Matthew Continetti, have functioned as key
vehicles for these smears against "Renegade Jews," especially targeting
liberal supporters of Israel [6] for diverging from the Likudnik party line.
Ethnically charged attacks against liberal Jews by Kristol's media apparatus
are so frequent and numerous that compiling them all might drive a
researcher to exhaustion. A brief round-up is enough to demonstrate how
zealously and routinely Kristol and his cadres have resorted to the
"Renegade Jew" smear.
Condemning Goldstone as a traitorous snitch
There are few "Renegade Jews" that Kristol and his Weekly Standard loathe
more than those who staff J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobbying
organization established to support the Obama administration's negotiation
efforts in Israel-Palestine. Back in 2009, when J Street was founded, the
Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb described [7] the group as "nothing more
than a partisan, Democratic organization trying to provide Jewish cover to
an administration that is hostile to Israel -- they only stand with the
[Iranian] mullahs because Obama stands with the mullahs."
That same year, Goldfarb composed a satirical poem [8] in the voice of two
Jewish poets supposedly disinvited by J Street from the group's first annual
convention. The fake poem written by Goldfarb included the following line:
"I write the names of the censored, the silenced, the forgotten the J Street
capo has handed my name to the new Jew Gestapo I read my words distorted by
neocon distorters."
In 2010, following Israel's brutal assault on the Gaza Strip, the United
Nations appointed Richard Goldstone, a distinguished Jewish jurist from
South Africa, to lead its fact-finding mission into alleged war crimes.
Goldstone fell under immediate attack from the demagogic pro-Israel lawyer
Alan Dershowitz, an attorney who has represented Sheldon Adelson [9], the
casino magnate who is the major financial backer of both the Israeli Likud
and US Republican Parties and has now pledged $100 million to the campaign
of Donald Trump. Dershowitz engaged in character assassination [10] against
Goldstone, calling him a "moser" and an "absolute traitor."
Drawn from Talmudic teachings, the condemnatory term [11] "moser" refers to
Jewish snitches that betray fellow Jews to Gentile authorities. The
traditional punishment for moserim has ranged over the centuries from the
severing of tongues and ears to execution. Faced with a torrent of
pro-Israel threats, Goldstone was eventually prevented from attending his
grandson's Bar Mitzvah, a family event that Dershowitz accused him of
"politicizing" [12] through his mere presence.
The Weekly Standard eagerly signed on to Dershowitz's campaign to brand
Goldstone as a Renegade Jew. Leading the charge was Rachel Abrams. The late
wife of the former Reagan official Elliott Abrams, who pled guilty for his
role in the Iran-Contra scandal, Rachel Abrams was an outspoken proponent of
genocide against Palestinians, describing them as [13] "child sacrificing
savages" and "unmanned animals." After denouncing [14] Goldstone as the
"favorite judge" of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (the horror!)
during the dark days of apartheid South Africa, Rachel Abrams hailed [15]
Dershowitz's screed against Goldstone's report on Gaza as "a masterpiece of
dismantlement."
In the end, Goldstone felt the strain of the sustained campaign of vitriol
and recanted key aspects report he oversaw, even disowning the co-authors
who did the bulk of the research.
The family that smears together
The neoconservative movement is an incestuous enterprise that journalist Jim
Lobe called [13] "an extended clan of friends, spouses and children who have
known each other for generations." Rachel Abrams, a former board member of
Kristol's Emergency Committee for Israel, was the daughter of founding
generation neocons Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, who are also the
parents of New York Post columnist John Podhoretz and Ruthie Blum, a writer
the Adelson funded, pro-Netanyahu daily newspaper Israel Hayom who lives in
an illegal Israeli settlement.
This neoconservative hothouse has reflexively reverted to the "Renegade Jew"
charge as a substitute for reasoned debate with critics of Israeli policies.
When the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt published her famous essay on the
Adolph Eichmann trial and the "banality of evil" in 1963, Norman Podhoretz
led the crusade to publicly discredit her and bully her editors at the New
Yorker into disowning her work. John Podhoretz has regularly re-enacted his
father's histrionics, albeit in much cruder form. He once took to Twitter to
call me [16] a "kapo," or a Jewish guard in a Nazi concentration camp, then
fired off the same insult against Eli Valley [17], a Jewish cartoonist whose
send-ups of the pro-Israel political establishment have frequently appeared
in the Jewish Daily Forward.
The next generation of character assassins
The son of first generation neocons Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb,
William Kristol founded the Weekly Standard in 1995. The magazine functioned
as a farm system for young right-wing writers like Matthew Continetti, who
broke into the conservative movement through a group co-founded by Kristol's
father, the Institute for Collegiate Studies. That organization provided
Continetti with his salary when he went to work for the Weekly Standard. It
was there that Continetti was essentially handed his first book deal [18] by
William Kristol, The K Street Gang, assigning him an editor to help write
his proposal, and then helping arrange for its sale and promotion.
(Continetti's second book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite
Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star, was a defense of the Republican
vice presidential nominee in 2008 who Kristol discovered during a Weekly
Standard cruise to her home state of Alaska. Palin employed Michael Goldfarb
as a spokesman on her 2008 campaign).
In 2012, Continetti married [19] Anne Kristol, the daughter of his boss.
That same year, Continetti helped found The Free Beacon with help from
Kristol, who served as a board member of the Goldfarb-run shell organization
[20] whose sole function was presiding over the newborn magazine's funding
and publication. Vowing in the Free Beacon's founding manifesto to conduct
ruthless "combat journalism," Continetti -- the son of Catholic parents --
proceeded to deploy the "Renegade Jew" smear with reckless abandon.
"Hughes Drops Jews," [21] the Free Beacon headline blared in January 2013.
Chris Hughes, a Silicon Valley tech baron, had just purchased The New
Republic, provoking an exodus of writers that included several unpaid
contributing editors who had contributed [22] almost nothing to the magazine
for several years. Although only five of the twelve writers happened to be
Jewish, the Free Beacon accused Hughes of leading the digital media
equivalent of an anti-Semitic pogrom in collaboration with another person
the Free Beacon considered a Renegade Jew: The New Republic's
then-editor-in-chief Franklin Foer.
One of the most recent targets of a Free Beacon-crafted Renegade Jew smear
was Simone Zimmerman, a founder of the left-wing Jewish protest group, If
Not Now, and former campus activist for J Street. When she was appointed
this year as Jewish outreach director by Senator Bernie Sander's
presidential campaign, Zimmerman came under ferocious attack [23] from a
host of right-wing pro-Israel organizations. The campaign culminated when
Noah Pollack [24], the director of Kristol's pro-Likud Emergency Committee
for Israel, publicized a Facebook post in which Zimmerman wrote, "Fuck you,
Bibi, for daring to insist that you represent even a fraction of Jews in the
world..." Posted during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's military
campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2014, Zimmerman's item led to her
suspension from the Sanders campaign.
Declaring Jewish liberalism a form of apostasy
A Free Beacon review of a diatribe against Jews who criticize Israel
perfectly captured the magazine's mindset. Headlined "The Enemies Within
[25]," the review provided fulsome praise for "Jews Against Themselves," an
obscure book that described both J Street and the left-wing Jewish Voice for
Peace as "internal enemies" and accused them of embracing "the 'sissy'
Jewish school of thought."
The Free Beacon reviewer highlighted what he considered an "important
suggestion" from the book: "Remember that exclusion is as much a function of
human intellect as inclusion. And view them as apostates-Jews who, in
Maimonides's words, are indifferent to their people when they are in
distress and therefore have no share in the World to Come."
Now that Kristol has been branded as a Renegade Jew, his cadres appear
mystified. "What does [David] Horowitz think Kristol has betrayed? And what
does his being Jewish have to do with it?... I'm a little hazy," the Free
Beacon's Matthew Walther [26] wrote of the notorious Breitbart headline.
While Kredoexpressed horror [27] that Kristol had been of "smeared with
anti-Semitic slurs," Jonathan Tobin, executive editor of the Commentary
Magazine edited by John Podhoretz and a close ally of Kristol, berated
Horowitz [28] for daring to "wrap him[self] in the Star of David and to
somehow brand his opponents as traitors to the pro-Israel cause." Tobin,
however, has been an avid user of the "Renegade Jew" smear. He deployed it,
for example, in 2011 [29] against New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman,
an occasional critic of Israel's settlement enterprise, for supposedly
trafficking in "a new form of anti-Semitism" as well as "feed[ing] off of
traditional themes of Jew-hatred."
Ultimately, it was Kristol and his allies who popularized this vicious
tactic and helped generate the smear they now decry. Yet they react with
shock that their chickens have finally come home to roost.
Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project at AlterNet, and
the award-winning author of Goliath [30] and Republican Gomorrah [31]. His
most recent book is The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Follow him
on Twitter at @MaxBlumenthal [32].
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/breitbart-renegade-jew-bill-kristol_us_5
73967bfe4b077d4d6f369b2
[4] https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/732073380707328000
[5]
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/16/breitbart_calls_bill_krist
ol_a_renegade_jew_is_disgusting.html
[6] http://freebeacon.com/issues/adl-joins-obamas-war-on-israel/
[7]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/twitter-truth-j-street-stands-with-the-mullahs
/article/242174
[8]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/j-streets-anti-israel-poets-fire-back/article/
271120
[9]
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2015/09/01/sheldon-adelson-sands-china-re
cruits-alan-dershowitz-for-lawsuit-appeal-asks.html
[10]
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2010/01/31/dershowitz-calls-goldstone-evil
-traitor-to-jews-knesset-to-investigate-nif/
[11] http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11047-moser
[12]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/it-is-goldstone-who-is-po_b_55
5390.html
[13] http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/1145
[14] http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-goods-on-goldstone/article/271162
[15]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/dershowitz-judges-goldstone/article/415831
[16] http://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/486965779364347905
[17] http://twitter.com/Ali_Gharib/status/486965279893647360
[18] http://observer.com/2006/04/the-rightwing-scion-king/
[19]
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inetti-weddings.html?_r=0
[20] http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/center_for_american_freedom/
[21] http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hughes-drops-jews/
[22]
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beral-magazine.html
[23]
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118589/
[24]
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[25] http://freebeacon.com/culture/the-enemy-within/
[26]
http://freebeacon.com/blog/website-founded-jewish-man-denounces-renegade-jew
/
[27] http://twitter.com/Kredo0/status/732325104412176384
[28]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/breitba
rts-renegade-jew-disgrace/
[29]
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m-israel-netanyahu/
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Popularized
By Max Blumenthal [1] / AlterNet [2]
May 17, 2016
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An article labeling neoconservative movement leader, Fox News pundit and
orchestrator of the #NeverTrump movement William Kristol as a "Renegade Jew
[3]" has sparked a frenzy on online news and social media forums. Written by
David Horowitz, another neoconservative, for the pro-Trump Breitbart
website, the piece trashed Kristol for his plans to back a third party
candidate against Trump, the populist evildoer at the top of the Republican
establishment's political kill list.
The phrase "Renegade Jew" has trended on Twitter for days after the
publication of Horowitz's tirade, with many anti-Trump conservatives echoing
Republican pollster Frank Luntz's positive spin [4]: "To be fair, "Renegade
Jew" sounds remarkably badass." Liberals, meanwhile, touted the Horowitz
attack [5] as evidence of the anti-Semitism unleashed by the Trump campaign,
which has provided fertile soil for grassroots white nationalist organizing.
In almost every case, the commentary on Horowitz's outburst misses the
ironic subtext that explains the origins of the ugly slur: As a leader of
the neoconservative faction that formed in the defense of and in alignment
with Israel's right-wing Likud Party, Kristol himself has been a prime
promoter of the "Renegade Jew" smear, presiding over campaigns to brand
left-wing and liberal Jews as anti-Semitic apostates and demanding they be
treated as pariahs by the community in which he and his ideological fellow
travelers claim to be the authorities.
Kristol's Weekly Standard magazine and the Washington Free Beacon online
tabloid edited by his son-in-law, Matthew Continetti, have functioned as key
vehicles for these smears against "Renegade Jews," especially targeting
liberal supporters of Israel [6] for diverging from the Likudnik party line.
Ethnically charged attacks against liberal Jews by Kristol's media apparatus
are so frequent and numerous that compiling them all might drive a
researcher to exhaustion. A brief round-up is enough to demonstrate how
zealously and routinely Kristol and his cadres have resorted to the
"Renegade Jew" smear.
Condemning Goldstone as a traitorous snitch
There are few "Renegade Jews" that Kristol and his Weekly Standard loathe
more than those who staff J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobbying
organization established to support the Obama administration's negotiation
efforts in Israel-Palestine. Back in 2009, when J Street was founded, the
Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb described [7] the group as "nothing more
than a partisan, Democratic organization trying to provide Jewish cover to
an administration that is hostile to Israel -- they only stand with the
[Iranian] mullahs because Obama stands with the mullahs."
That same year, Goldfarb composed a satirical poem [8] in the voice of two
Jewish poets supposedly disinvited by J Street from the group's first annual
convention. The fake poem written by Goldfarb included the following line:
"I write the names of the censored, the silenced, the forgotten the J Street
capo has handed my name to the new Jew Gestapo I read my words distorted by
neocon distorters."
In 2010, following Israel's brutal assault on the Gaza Strip, the United
Nations appointed Richard Goldstone, a distinguished Jewish jurist from
South Africa, to lead its fact-finding mission into alleged war crimes.
Goldstone fell under immediate attack from the demagogic pro-Israel lawyer
Alan Dershowitz, an attorney who has represented Sheldon Adelson [9], the
casino magnate who is the major financial backer of both the Israeli Likud
and US Republican Parties and has now pledged $100 million to the campaign
of Donald Trump. Dershowitz engaged in character assassination [10] against
Goldstone, calling him a "moser" and an "absolute traitor."
Drawn from Talmudic teachings, the condemnatory term [11] "moser" refers to
Jewish snitches that betray fellow Jews to Gentile authorities. The
traditional punishment for moserim has ranged over the centuries from the
severing of tongues and ears to execution. Faced with a torrent of
pro-Israel threats, Goldstone was eventually prevented from attending his
grandson's Bar Mitzvah, a family event that Dershowitz accused him of
"politicizing" [12] through his mere presence.
The Weekly Standard eagerly signed on to Dershowitz's campaign to brand
Goldstone as a Renegade Jew. Leading the charge was Rachel Abrams. The late
wife of the former Reagan official Elliott Abrams, who pled guilty for his
role in the Iran-Contra scandal, Rachel Abrams was an outspoken proponent of
genocide against Palestinians, describing them as [13] "child sacrificing
savages" and "unmanned animals." After denouncing [14] Goldstone as the
"favorite judge" of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (the horror!)
during the dark days of apartheid South Africa, Rachel Abrams hailed [15]
Dershowitz's screed against Goldstone's report on Gaza as "a masterpiece of
dismantlement."
In the end, Goldstone felt the strain of the sustained campaign of vitriol
and recanted key aspects report he oversaw, even disowning the co-authors
who did the bulk of the research.
The family that smears together
The neoconservative movement is an incestuous enterprise that journalist Jim
Lobe called [13] "an extended clan of friends, spouses and children who have
known each other for generations." Rachel Abrams, a former board member of
Kristol's Emergency Committee for Israel, was the daughter of founding
generation neocons Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, who are also the
parents of New York Post columnist John Podhoretz and Ruthie Blum, a writer
the Adelson funded, pro-Netanyahu daily newspaper Israel Hayom who lives in
an illegal Israeli settlement.
This neoconservative hothouse has reflexively reverted to the "Renegade Jew"
charge as a substitute for reasoned debate with critics of Israeli policies.
When the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt published her famous essay on the
Adolph Eichmann trial and the "banality of evil" in 1963, Norman Podhoretz
led the crusade to publicly discredit her and bully her editors at the New
Yorker into disowning her work. John Podhoretz has regularly re-enacted his
father's histrionics, albeit in much cruder form. He once took to Twitter to
call me [16] a "kapo," or a Jewish guard in a Nazi concentration camp, then
fired off the same insult against Eli Valley [17], a Jewish cartoonist whose
send-ups of the pro-Israel political establishment have frequently appeared
in the Jewish Daily Forward.
The next generation of character assassins
The son of first generation neocons Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb,
William Kristol founded the Weekly Standard in 1995. The magazine functioned
as a farm system for young right-wing writers like Matthew Continetti, who
broke into the conservative movement through a group co-founded by Kristol's
father, the Institute for Collegiate Studies. That organization provided
Continetti with his salary when he went to work for the Weekly Standard. It
was there that Continetti was essentially handed his first book deal [18] by
William Kristol, The K Street Gang, assigning him an editor to help write
his proposal, and then helping arrange for its sale and promotion.
(Continetti's second book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite
Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star, was a defense of the Republican
vice presidential nominee in 2008 who Kristol discovered during a Weekly
Standard cruise to her home state of Alaska. Palin employed Michael Goldfarb
as a spokesman on her 2008 campaign).
In 2012, Continetti married [19] Anne Kristol, the daughter of his boss.
That same year, Continetti helped found The Free Beacon with help from
Kristol, who served as a board member of the Goldfarb-run shell organization
[20] whose sole function was presiding over the newborn magazine's funding
and publication. Vowing in the Free Beacon's founding manifesto to conduct
ruthless "combat journalism," Continetti -- the son of Catholic parents --
proceeded to deploy the "Renegade Jew" smear with reckless abandon.
"Hughes Drops Jews," [21] the Free Beacon headline blared in January 2013.
Chris Hughes, a Silicon Valley tech baron, had just purchased The New
Republic, provoking an exodus of writers that included several unpaid
contributing editors who had contributed [22] almost nothing to the magazine
for several years. Although only five of the twelve writers happened to be
Jewish, the Free Beacon accused Hughes of leading the digital media
equivalent of an anti-Semitic pogrom in collaboration with another person
the Free Beacon considered a Renegade Jew: The New Republic's
then-editor-in-chief Franklin Foer.
One of the most recent targets of a Free Beacon-crafted Renegade Jew smear
was Simone Zimmerman, a founder of the left-wing Jewish protest group, If
Not Now, and former campus activist for J Street. When she was appointed
this year as Jewish outreach director by Senator Bernie Sander's
presidential campaign, Zimmerman came under ferocious attack [23] from a
host of right-wing pro-Israel organizations. The campaign culminated when
Noah Pollack [24], the director of Kristol's pro-Likud Emergency Committee
for Israel, publicized a Facebook post in which Zimmerman wrote, "Fuck you,
Bibi, for daring to insist that you represent even a fraction of Jews in the
world..." Posted during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's military
campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2014, Zimmerman's item led to her
suspension from the Sanders campaign.
Declaring Jewish liberalism a form of apostasy
A Free Beacon review of a diatribe against Jews who criticize Israel
perfectly captured the magazine's mindset. Headlined "The Enemies Within
[25]," the review provided fulsome praise for "Jews Against Themselves," an
obscure book that described both J Street and the left-wing Jewish Voice for
Peace as "internal enemies" and accused them of embracing "the 'sissy'
Jewish school of thought."
The Free Beacon reviewer highlighted what he considered an "important
suggestion" from the book: "Remember that exclusion is as much a function of
human intellect as inclusion. And view them as apostates-Jews who, in
Maimonides's words, are indifferent to their people when they are in
distress and therefore have no share in the World to Come."
Now that Kristol has been branded as a Renegade Jew, his cadres appear
mystified. "What does [David] Horowitz think Kristol has betrayed? And what
does his being Jewish have to do with it?... I'm a little hazy," the Free
Beacon's Matthew Walther [26] wrote of the notorious Breitbart headline.
While Kredoexpressed horror [27] that Kristol had been of "smeared with
anti-Semitic slurs," Jonathan Tobin, executive editor of the Commentary
Magazine edited by John Podhoretz and a close ally of Kristol, berated
Horowitz [28] for daring to "wrap him[self] in the Star of David and to
somehow brand his opponents as traitors to the pro-Israel cause." Tobin,
however, has been an avid user of the "Renegade Jew" smear. He deployed it,
for example, in 2011 [29] against New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman,
an occasional critic of Israel's settlement enterprise, for supposedly
trafficking in "a new form of anti-Semitism" as well as "feed[ing] off of
traditional themes of Jew-hatred."
Ultimately, it was Kristol and his allies who popularized this vicious
tactic and helped generate the smear they now decry. Yet they react with
shock that their chickens have finally come home to roost.
Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project at AlterNet, and
the award-winning author of Goliath [30] and Republican Gomorrah [31]. His
most recent book is The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Follow him
on Twitter at @MaxBlumenthal [32].
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73967bfe4b077d4d6f369b2
[4] https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/732073380707328000
[5]
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/16/breitbart_calls_bill_krist
ol_a_renegade_jew_is_disgusting.html
[6] http://freebeacon.com/issues/adl-joins-obamas-war-on-israel/
[7]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/twitter-truth-j-street-stands-with-the-mullahs
/article/242174
[8]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/j-streets-anti-israel-poets-fire-back/article/
271120
[9]
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2015/09/01/sheldon-adelson-sands-china-re
cruits-alan-dershowitz-for-lawsuit-appeal-asks.html
[10]
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2010/01/31/dershowitz-calls-goldstone-evil
-traitor-to-jews-knesset-to-investigate-nif/
[11] http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11047-moser
[12]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/it-is-goldstone-who-is-po_b_55
5390.html
[13] http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/1145
[14] http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-goods-on-goldstone/article/271162
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[33] mailto:corrections@xxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=Typo on Neocons Cry
Anti-Semitism Over the Pro-Trump 'Renegade Jew' Smear That They
Popularized
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