It’s about Peter Beinart’s relationship with Zionism, and anti-Zionism… look, the title is “House Jew, Field Jew.” With all of the historical connotations that such a title implies, and with Beinart being identified as being one of the former. It’s a harsh piece – and this is me saying that: I despise Beinart for casually and serially violating The New Republic over several years, all for the sake of a bankrupt antiwar ideology that nobody credible takes seriously*. Whether it’s a fair piece… up to the reader, really. Certainly there are things in Kerstein’s piece that I would have felt constrained not to write; whether that’s because they weren’t correct, or weren’t politically correct, for me to write is a surprisingly hard question to answer.
Assessing the impact of cultural taboos can be like that.
Moe Lane
*I nearly wrote ‘any more,’ but that would imply that credible people ever took the antiwar movement’s ideology seriously.
Wow. This is not a punch in the nose, but a gutting of a fish.
“We are the field Jews whose ancestors decided, at long last, that a piece of the field was going to be theirs: a testimony to their labors and their sufferings.”
Amen.
The disenchantment of Jews with the Left in general seems to have escalated. Hence Brooklyn’s surging GOP presence, no? And the sickening sensation that our President might be an anti-Semite. Ugh.