{"id":7852,"date":"2009-01-08T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T01:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2009-01-09T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:40:18","slug":"andrew-sullivan-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7852","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Sullivan &#038; The Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped reading Sullivan regularly when he wouldn&#8217;t get off his gay marriage kick (and there were those revelations about his personal ads, oy, couldn&#8217;t get that stuff out of my mind).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/jury\/2009\/01\/07\/a-creepring-anti-semitism-within-andrew-sullivan\/\">My attorney Justin Levine blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>First I was baffled by his <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/06\/male_genital_mu.html\" target=\"_blank\">continued tirade<\/a> against male circumcision, even after strong  scientific and medical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/resources\/factsheets\/circumcision.htm\">evidence<\/a>  developed to show that it helps prevent a disease that has killed millions  (including many of Sullivan&rsquo;s own friends).<\/p>\n<p>Then I grew frustrated by his <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/a-question-of-p.html\" target=\"_blank\">emphasis on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/proportionali-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;proportionality&rdquo; theory<\/a> with regards to Israel&rsquo;s current  battle against Hamas in Gaza. My frustration stemmed not only from its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/totten\/48542\" target=\"_blank\">flawed reasoning<\/a>, and the complete malleability of the  philosophy which renders it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/totten\/48801\" target=\"_blank\">irrelevant<\/a> in this instance, but also from the fact that I  couldn&rsquo;t seem to find in depth discussions of &ldquo;proportionality&rdquo; from Sullivan in  the past with regards to other conflicts around the world &#8211; only when the Jews  seem to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>But I was REALLY forced to do a double take today when Sullivan seemed to put  the <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/dreaming-of-war.html\" target=\"_blank\">blame<\/a> on &ldquo;Zionism&rdquo; for a &ldquo;constant state of war&rdquo;. Am I  misinterpreting him here? Read <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/dreaming-of-war.html\" target=\"_self\">his post<\/a> and decide for yourself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abe Greenwald joins the international Jewish conspiracy to decipher  Sullivan&rsquo;s thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greenwald\/49462\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, along with unearthing Sullivan&rsquo;s contradictory views  from an earlier era. Very insightful (on Abe Greenwald&rsquo;s part).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped reading Sullivan regularly when he wouldn&#8217;t get off his gay marriage kick (and there were those revelations about his personal ads, oy, couldn&#8217;t get that stuff out of my mind). My attorney Justin Levine blogs: First I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6243],"tags":[31068,15355,15352,15354,15353,750],"class_list":["post-7852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-sullivan","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-contradictory-views","tag-international-jewish-conspiracy","tag-justin-levine","tag-male-circumcision","tag-rsquo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}