The Post-Partisan Emporium

  PATRICK LAWRENCE: AIPAC’s Anxieties The Israel lobbies’ grip on U.S. politics has slipped beyond restoration since Oct. 7, 2023 due to the Zionist army’s own savagery in Gaza.   Charlie Kirk speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Gage Skidmore/ Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0) By  Patrick Lawrence I f Charlies Kirk’s well-documented defection from the Zionist cause confirmed one thing above all others, it is that the Israeli lobbies’ grip on American politics has slipped—measurably, and I would say beyond any kind of restoration—since the events of Oct. 7, 2023. It would take more hasbara than the Israelis could ever produce to persuade me Kirk did not pay for his abandonment of the Christian– Zionist orthodoxy when he was assassinated before a crowd of conservative youth last Sept. 10. Andrew Cockburn  has an excellent piece on this question  in the current edition of  Harper’s , published under the headline “Turning Point.” And...

  Zionism, Nazism and Moloch A book review Paul Cudenec “It is clear that Israel does not represent or speak for all Jews worldwide, nor do the Jewish organizations outside of Israel who claim to represent a unified Jewish voice”. [1] The big lie that anti-Zionism amounts to anti-semitism is one that has been repeated  ad nauseam  all over the world in recent years. So it is very useful to have a new book, written by a Jewish academic, that utterly demolishes that disingenuous claim. This work is  Israel in Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism  by Yakov Rabkin, professor of history at the University of Montreal. It gets off to a powerful start in the Preface penned by Ambassador Chas. W. Freeman, Jr, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense. He condemns the amorality “in the Israeli militarism that has balkanized the Levant, birthed an ideology of Jewish supremacism, and culminated in shameless repudiation of both the spirit and the laws of Judaism as well as ...