[Peace-discuss] The higher anti-Semitism

[C G Estabrook]

I’ve apparently been unclear in my reference to “the higher anti-semitism.” Perhaps I should eschew irony.

By ‘the higher anti-semitism’ I mean the view that US foreign policy is run for the interests of the Israeli government - roughly the Mearsheimer-Walt thesis - or the view that “The USA is now quite literally run by a Zionist Occupation Government, no doubt about it whatsoever,” as Mort quotes.

The US is run by government institutions that serve the interests of dominant social groups in America (‘the ruling class’), influenced as they may be by various interest groups  (‘lobbies’), of which the Israel lobby is not the only one nor even probably the most influential. 

But the ‘higher anti-semitism’ excuses the crimes of the US government on the crude and false excuse, 'the Jews [the government of Israel and the Israel lobby] made us do it.'  

--CGE