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Is Even Khalidi An Anti-Semite?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Joe Klein takes on the McCarthyite McCain spokesman, Michael Goldfarb.
Profiles In Douchebaggery
Balloon Juice —
... Joe Klein is not impressed:
Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism—a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives.
Nor is Sullivan:
Michael Goldfarb, McCain spokesman, accuses Barack Obama of hanging around with anti-Semites – plural – on CNN. Asked to name one other anti-Semite other than his allegation about Rashid Khalidi, he can’t. He won’t. But ...
The PLO's Professor
The American Spectator —
... Liberals have defended
Khalidi as a "respected academic," and amid all of the political
noise and accusations flying back and forth between the two
camps, it's easy to see how some voters would tune out when
conservatives refer to him as a former "PLO spokesman." But
without engaging in the semantic debate over what word should be
applied to his complex and long-standing relationship with the
terrorist group, a TAS analysis of contemporaneous news
accounts dating back to the 1970s as well a look at Khalidi's own
writings leave no doubt that a close ...
Video: Michael Goldfarb On The Tightest Leash
Perfunction —
... noble self-restraint:
Andrew Sullivan (link moratorium)
Michael Goldfarb, McCain spokesman, accuses Barack Obama of hanging around with anti-Semites - plural - on CNN. Asked to name one other anti-Semite other than his allegation about Rashid Khalidi, he can't. He won't. But he leaves it hanging, refusing to disown or retract the charge. This is pure McCarthyism. And it is the rotten core of McCain.
and
Joe Klein
I'd say that if we have a bigot here, it's Mr. Goldfarb who, if he's intent on ...
I’m Glad Joe Klein Could Do Research On Rashid Khalidi
Pirate's Cove —
I’d ask “what is with the MSM,” but, we all know the answer: in da tank
Herewe have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so the charge of anti-semitism is fatuous. Khalidi is also a respected academic, the sort of person who is involved in foundation work that John McCain, for ...
I’m Glad Joe Klein Could Do Research On Rashid Khalidi
Stop The ACLU —
I’d ask “what is with the MSM,” but, we all know the answer: in da tank Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so the charge of anti-semitism is fatuous. Khalidi is also a respected academic, the sort of person who is involved in foundation work that John McCain, for one, was willing to support financially. I’d say that if we have a bigot here, ...
The GOP Race to the Bottom
The Mahablog —
For some reason this reminds me of “The Prisoner,” except the Prisoner wanted the identity of Number One, not Number Two. Does that make all the rest of us Number Six, or whatever number Patrick Mcgoohan was?
But Number One isn’t anti-semitic either, according to Joe Klein:
I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so the charge of anti-semitism is fatuous. Khalidi is also a respected academic, the sort of person who is ...
Jesus Christ, It’s Barack Obama
N/A —
... We should be more careful about Obama’s associations. Did you know he’s a Muslim? Or an anti-semitic hater? ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
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Informed Comment: McCain racism and hypocrisy on the Khalidi issue
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McCain’s Racist Attacks on Khalidi A Tough Sell
Firedoglake —
... The Neocons have largely gotten away with intimidating their critics by dismissing them as antisemitic for years now, but they crossed some kind of line when they went after Joe Klein who -- as Glenn Greenwald notes today -- has a forum at Time Magazine to push back (which he has been using quite heroically). The fact that the ADL decided to get into it and condemn Klein only further discredits the nexus that has made Israeli foreign policy a third rail topic of discussion for so long: ...
The Andrew Sullivan Award for Way-Over-the-Top Blogging in Support of Obama
The Volokh Conspiracy —
by a previously reasonable commentator goes to Joe Klein , who parrots the line that Arabs can't be anti-Semites in defense of Rashid Khalidi (who, in fairness, I have no reason to believe is anything but a non-anti-Semitic, but anti-Israel, Palestinian nationalist). ...
Sanchez asks Goldfarb a Question
Informed Comment —
... Incidentally, Joe Klein's defense of Khalidi started a controversy over whether the term 'antisemite' also refers to Arabs. The glib answer that the term was invented in the 19th century specifically for Jews ignores the history of writing about 'Aryans' and 'Semites,' in which many European thinkers did in fact group 'Semites' (i.e. speakers of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, though the Europeans racialized them) together. French commentators on Algeria in the 1860s spoke of the lethargy and fanaticism of Semites in general versus the dynamic Aryans. They ...
