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Steven Emerson: Yes, the terrorists are winning

Don Terry: Lifetime, no see

Dec. 2, 2008

Melanie Phillips: The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared world

Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report: Strategic Motivations for the Mumbai Attack

Dec. 1, 2008

Max Freidlander, as told to Jacklyn C. Wadler: India Inkings

Mark Steyn: Whodunit!?

Nov. 28, 2008

Rabbi Ahron Rapps: An evil seed that didn't have to be

Melanie Phillips: Carpe diem --- or can we all relax now?

Nov. 26, 2008

Michael Feldberg: Meet the Orthodox Jew who laid groundwork for scientific development of ordnance that undergirds America's current world leadership

Andrea Simantov: Shades of life

Nov. 25, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Getting Emotional For Influence

The Kosher Gourmet by Ethel G. Hofman : Thanksiving feast!

Nov. 24, 2008

Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg: 'I just Became a grandchild!'

Barry Rubin: Don't flatter your enemies, protect your friends

Nov. 21, 2008

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: Money matters?

Caroline B. Glick: Civilization walks the plank

Nov. 20, 2008

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Bronfman's blindness

The Kosher Gourmet By Linda Gassenheimer: Portobellos add a hearty flavor to pasta with pesto

Nov, 19, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Spread the wealth? Jewish tradition and income equality

Elliot B. Gertel: 'Mad Men': Tackling prejudices or reinforcing them?

Nov, 18, 2008

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: The End of the Age of Reason

Jonathan Tobin: Does Barack + Bibi = Disaster?

Nov, 17, 2008

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The End of the Age of Reason

Diana West: Gulling Americans into making terror legit?

Nov, 14, 2008

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: The Power of Spiritual Inertia

Caroline B. Glick: The perils ahead

Nov, 13, 2008

Stratfor Intelligence Briefing: How Bush and Obama together could change the Middle East dynamic

The Kosher Gourmet by JeanMarie Brownson: Sweet and savory, crispy and meltingly tender bestilla

Nov, 12, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Tyrannical Co-Workers

Michael Doyle: High Court to consider today donated monuments that may have religious messages in public parks

Nov, 11, 2008

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Will Obama stop government officials considering institutionalizing financial jihad?

Jonathan Tobin: They Will Decide Their Own Fate

Nov, 10, 2008

Rabbi Avi Shafran: $8 billion, modern-day Tower of Babel being built?

Barry Rubin: A letter to the president-elect from a Middle East realist

Nov, 7, 2008

Rabbi Francis Nataf: Of Children and Immortality

Caroline B. Glick: Livni's Obama strategy

Nov, 6, 2008

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: How I tricked a classroom of apathetic students into grasping the fallacy of moral relativism

The Kosher Gourmet By Gina Kim: Tips for making the perfect soup --- includes recipes

Nov, 5, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Destitute Debtors

Bruce Weinstein: 'Religulos': Bad title,even worse movie

Nov, 4, 2008

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Treasury Dept. submits to Shariah law

Frida Ghitis: A surprise for Obama in the Middle East

Nov, 3, 2008

Jonathan Rosenblum: Who says Jews are Smart?

Jonathan Tobin: Was He Wrong About Everything?

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Jewish World Review April 9, 2004 / 19 Nissan, 5764

He's making a list, checking it twice…

By Andrew Silow-Carroll


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A Leftist mag with an international following "outs" influential supporters and advisors of the president based on their religion


http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Kalle Lasn,
Editor-in-chief,
Adbusters
Vancouver, BC


Dear Mr. Lasn,


I am an infrequent but often admiring reader of your Vancouver-based magazine, which lampoons corporate culture and the way advertisers manipulate the media to sell products and ideas. I'm no fan of the magazine's reflexive anti-globalization stance, but at least you have shown a sense of humor in satirizing McWorld.


For a moment there I thought you were kidding, in the most recent issue, when you published your article titled "Why Won't Anyone Say They're Jewish?" That was the article in which you provided a list of the "50 most influential neocons" and helpfully placed a star next to those who are Jewish. "The point," you explained, "is simply that the neocons seem to have a special affinity for Israel that influences their political thinking and consequently American foreign policy in the Middle East." And in case we still didn't get "the point," you ended the article by declaring, "And half of them are Jewish."

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When readers suggested that such a singling out of individuals by ethnicity — as opposed to their mere political leanings — may be construed as racist, you were unapologetic. "They have the power to start wars and to stop them," you wrote back. "And if we see maleness, whiteness, Jewishness, Zionism or intellectual thuggery there, then let us not look the other way."


Indeed, let us not. Too many of the folks who have written similarly about the nefarious Jewish influence in the White House since the launch of the Iraq invasion one year ago — like Pat Buchanan, to name one — merely point out the problem. But isn't it time we did something about it?


I know that Adbusters is action-oriented, urging its readers not only to consider ideas but to act on them. For example, having identified the nefarious global influence of sneaker giant Nike, Adbusters urges readers to buy your own brand of blackSpot sneakers in order to "usher in a more grassroots version of capitalism." Similarly, noting that "corporations now control more than half the information networks," Adbusters urges readers to sign a manifesto demanding "the right to buy radio and television airtime under the same rules and conditions as advertising agencies."


If, as you write, Jewish neocons are "the prime architects of America's foreign policy since 9/11" — as opposed to, say, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Tommy Franks, Donald Rumsfeld, or Richard Armitage — then why not give your readers a similarly pointed action plan?


Allow me to suggest a number of possibilities:

  • Organize a petition campaign asking the president to limit the number of Jewish advisers who can be appointed to top government agencies.

  • Urge lawmakers to carefully screen all policy directives that may offer a secondary benefit to Israel. Suppose, to take a wacky example, that radical Islamic groups abroad have threatened to carry out and have carried out attacks on the United States. Our new policy would be to forestall intelligence gathering and law enforcement among such groups if they are also sworn enemies of Israel. Neocon Jews should not be allowed to force our country to protect its own citizens just to do Israel a favor.

  • Jews who seek policy positions should be given a test determining if they put the interests of Israel before those of the United States. We can call it a "loyalty oath." I seem to remember such oaths were demanded in the 1950s, and they proved very popular, especially on the Left.

  • Repeal the constitutional provisions that have given neocon Jews, as you put it, "the power to start wars and to stop them." Demand that the Constitution be amended so that power is returned to the White House and the Congress.

  • Until lawmakers and commanders-in-chief demonstrate that they are strong enough to think for themselves and resist the seductive powers of those Jews who write for neocon journals, demand that they no longer be allowed to subscribe to or read such publications. Similarly, urge that the government issue press licenses, and limit the number of licenses going to journals featuring the work of such pro-Israel figures as Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and Midge Decter. Especially Midge Decter. Her role as the president's closest adviser has gone on for too long.

  • Send to every influential (non-Jewish) policymaker the book Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (Yale University Press, 2001), by the northeast regional director of Amnesty International, Joshua Rubenstein (a Jew!). Rubenstein describes how the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was established on Stalin's orders in April 1942 in order to drum up Jewish support for the American-Soviet alliance against Nazi Germany (yet another example of a leader allowing himself to be surrounded by influential Jews). When the committee's members became vocal supporters of the State of Israel, Stalin grew disenchanted with their work. Like you, he decided to "tackle the issue head on." Uncle Joe didn't just post a list of these Zionist Jews. He ordered the committee dissolved. And, oh yes, he ordered the execution of 13 intellectuals on Aug. 12, 1952. And all of them were Jewish.


These are just a few of my suggestions. I'm hopeful — no, confident — that you can come up with many more. After all, Adbusters showed remarkable courage in raising this issue. Let's see if it is equally brave in following it through to its logical conclusion.


Best wishes,
ASC

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