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See http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/02/jews-for-ron-pa.html .
Jews for Ron Paul website. Note that Paul Gottfried is among them, a scholar of the Palestinian expulsion of '48. They're not all libertarians...
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Friday, February 15, 2008
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I'm not a Jew, but because I had been in the academic field (before I got involved with Russia & America Goodwill Association), inevitably I had to deal with, and admire, many of them. Like many other Gentiles, I am fed up with those standard intimations of "anti-Semitism" as soon as one expresses an opinion critical of Israel or Jews in general. In my language, "critical" is by no means hateful or malevolent.
That's why I used my website, focused on Russian-American relations, to defend professors Mearsheimer and Walt againt unfair accusations. I really feel that academic freedom is at stake everytime one has to fear being stigmatized. When the U.S. deprives itself of academic freedom, it may go down the drain as the "mighty" USSR did.
Please read the link http://www.raga.org/Defense_of_Academic_Freedom.html.
(BTW, I then e-mailed the letter to John, and he said he hoped my letter gets published).
Although the two professors' book is focused on Israel-U.S. relations, I am quite sure that the same coterie of people handled (mishandled) U.S.sponsored Russian reform program (Andrey Shleifer, Larry Summers, I have articles about them too)to the detriment of Russia-U.S. relations.
Once again, thanks for your work on behalf of the International of Good People of which one of Isaak Babel's heroes dreamt.
A friend sent me the comments below from Gottfried.
Gottfried sounds at best like liberal crypto-racists that used to argue African Americans had to go slow on civil rights demands.
I can argue the fundamental falseness of each assertion from Gottfried.
Here are some excerpts to show Gottfried's position:
(1) "And although I believe that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from their homes by an earlier generation of Jewish settlers in the course of a war, I see no way that "justice" can be done here without placing at risk all the Jews in Israel. The right of national and physical survival should come first for the Jewish state ..."
(2) "In short, I view Israel as an ethnic national state with a constitutional government that offers legal protection to non-Jewish minorities. While it is a gross exaggeration to pretend that Jews and non-Jews can do equally well in public life or enjoy the same social respect in Israel, I would rather be a non-Jew in Israel than a member of a religious-ethnic minority in just about any Muslim country. Indeed, I would rather be a non-Jew in Israel than a non-Catholic in eighteenth-century France or a Catholic in Ireland under English domination.
(3) Israel does not "bother" me because its government does nothing to interfere in my life and indeed provided a home to family members who were escaping from the Nazis and landed up in Palestine. ..."
So the jews have taken over Ron Paul's campaign? No big surprise!
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