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(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948)

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Thursday 2 August 2012

Young, Influential, & Zionist

To judge by their tweets and twitches, many of the usual suspects are crestfallen by this revelation in the Forward (well, they would be, wouldn't they!):

"They’re under 30, mostly right-of-center on Israel and writing for some of the pre-eminent publications in America.
A new crop of young pro-Israel writers is on the ascent. And many of them got their start at the same place: a collection of small university journals seeded by the Shalem Center, a prominent Zionist think tank in Israel.
The rising Middle East commentators include several alumni of Columbia University’s quarterly journal, The Current. Armin Rosen, for instance, is a fellow at Atlantic Media, where he recently penned an article attacking the anti-Zionist blog Mondoweiss for having the “appearance of an anti-Semitic enterprise.” David Feith, son of George W. Bush Pentagon appointee Douglas Feith, is an assistant editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he has inveighed against the Palestinian Fatah party, Israel’s negotiating and security partner in the occupied West Bank. Jordan Hirsch is an editor at the prestigious quarterly Foreign Affairs and recently defended the legacy of right-wing Zionist ideologue Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky in Tablet, an online Jewish magazine. And Bari Weiss, a senior editor at Tablet, has written for The Wall Street Journal about the Middle East and Israel...."
Read more http://forward.com/articles/160010/circle-of-pro-israel-writers-rises/

Hat tip: er – one of the usual suspects, who, as of this time of writing, has (unlike his mocking offsider) yet to answer me here ...

2 comments:

  1. "not Found" says my computer when I click on link! :(

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    1. Blogger keeps screwing up the links - sorry. Here it is

      http://forward.com/articles/160010/circle-of-pro-israel-writers-rises/

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