Stephen Walt and the Green-Rainbow Party: Jew Haters in Massachusetts

There's been plenty written about Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer's recent speech for CAIR at the National Press Club, about their attempts to prove they're scientists and not mere Jew-haters.  (Solomon has a nice round-up.) I won't beat a dead horse, but I do have a couple comments.

First, they're Jew-haters.  Easily refuted, though fairly dependable, I-know-them-when-I-see-them arguments aside, their repeated and deliberate use of "the Lobby" in their speeches is code, not for "the AIPAC," or "the American Jewish Lobby," but for "the Jews."  They throw it around as if it's perfectly fine, hoping -I suspect- that the shorthand will not only sink in, but will inure otherwise-reasonable listeners to the sound of disparaging labels.  It'll be that much easier to jump over to "the Jews" when their time comes.  Get your yellow stars out.

Second, the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe following the obvious explosion of it in the Middle East has long worried me.  But now I'm seeing it here.  The Green Rainbow Party has a candidate on the statewide ballot?  They are Jew-hating terrorist supporters.  Again, Solomon has the details (he blogs these topics daily, and is an expert).  How does that tie to Walt and Mearsheimer?  Simple: Harvard's here.  Walt works there.

Ick.

Comments

[Solomon]

Thanks, CP. And congrats on the "brush with MSM relevance."