{"id":329,"date":"2007-06-04T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2007-12-09T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:24:28","slug":"deriding-israels-christian-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Deriding Israel’s Christian Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Maoz writes in The Jewish Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Monitor’s oft-stated rule of thumb is that when a reporter quotes unnamed sources, those sources invariably buttress the reporter’s own viewpoint and agenda. Case in point: James D. Besser, the Washington correspondent for a handful of Jewish newspapers (the New York Jewish Week among them) who for the past several years has lamented the growing ties between members of the Christian Right and pro-Israel activists in the Jewish community.<\/p>\n

In an article last week on the mounting woes of lobbyist Jack Abramoff — a Jew closely associated with several leading lights of the Christian Right, including House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and political consultant Ralph Reed — Besser conjured the old boogeyman of right-wing anti-Semitism, painting a stereotypical picture of conservatives whose latent Jew-hatred is so close to the surface that a political scandal is all it might take to unloose the Furies.<\/p>\n

Besser kicked things off by stating that "Allegations against super lobbyist Jack Abramoff — almost always identified as an observant Jew in news stories — may play into traditional stereotypes about greedy Jews and revive the traditional anti-Semitism of the religious right, some analysts say…" — before proceeding to name just one such "analyst" in his article.<\/p>\n

Put aside for a moment this bigoted notion of conservative Christians and their feelings toward Jews (a notion discredited time and again in recent years, most notably when a much predicted backlash in the wake of the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal never materialized and when fears of movie-goers turning into pogromists after viewing "The Passion of the Christ" proved unfounded).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jason Maoz writes in The Jewish Press: The Monitor’s oft-stated rule of thumb is that when a reporter quotes unnamed sources, those sources invariably buttress the reporter’s own viewpoint and agenda. Case in point: James D. Besser, the Washington correspondent … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jason-maoz","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t