By Dr. Patrick Slattery: Ok, it’s not exactly the “latest news,” but I just stumbled on it, so it’s news to me. Eric Alterman of The Nation magazine back in 2010 wrote a blog entry with the following lead:
It sounds as if he is accusing the leaders of Jewish organizations of having a dual loyalty, or even being Israeli-firsters. This is the same Eric Alterman who back in 2003 made the following confession:
this article in the Forward, you’ll see that every single leader of every major Jewish organization has chosen to side with the government of Israel over the representative of their own government when it comes to the government of Israel’s right to attack American Jewish organizations.” If you read
It sounds as if he is accusing the leaders of Jewish organizations of having a dual loyalty, or even being Israeli-firsters. This is the same Eric Alterman who back in 2003 made the following confession:
My own dual loyalties–there, I admitted it–were drilled into me by my parents, my grandparents, my Hebrew school teachers and my rabbis, not to mention Israeli teen-tour leaders and AIPAC college representatives. It was just about the only thing they all agreed upon.