{"id":95394,"date":"2016-05-09T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T00:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95394"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T00:27:20","slug":"mondoweiss-jeffrey-goldberg-terrorizes-peers-into-silence-over-his-daily-intellectual-and-moral-outrages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95394","title":{"rendered":"Mondoweiss: Jeffrey Goldberg terrorizes peers into silence over his daily intellectual and moral outrages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mondoweiss<\/a>: But then again maybe I\u2019m a paranoid conspiratorial self-hating Jew. Maybe Jeffrey Goldberg\u2019s diagnosis of Glenn Greenwald applies to me as well: Maybe someone beat me up when I was a kid in Yeshiva! Remember Goldberg\u2019s diagnosis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSelf-hatred is a deeply-inexact description of the people this reader is trying to describe. In my experience, those Jews who consciously set themselves apart from the Jewish majority in the disgust they display for Israel, or for the principles of their faith, are often narcissists, and therefore seem to suffer from an excess of self-regard, rather than self-loathing. “Self-hater” is a euphemism, then, for “auto-anti-Semite,” or some other such locution. I generally try to stay away from such descriptions (though there are some very obvious candidates for the label of auto-anti-Semite, including the John Mearsheimer-endorsed neo-Nazi Gilad Atzmon<\/a>).\u201d \u2026.I often suspect that some really bad shit happened to him [Greenwald] in Hebrew school\u2026\u2026 (This is not to say I don’t admire some of his stands, including his forthright stance against torture — of course, this is a very Jewish position to take, if you ask me.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not a shrink, but it\u2019s very strange to me that Goldberg so unselfconsciously talks about \u201cnarcissists\u201d and \u201can excess of self regard.\u201d If there are any characteristics you guys all share, it\u2019s exactly that. Go down the list: Jeffrey Goldberg, Jennifer Rubin, Marty Peretz, Rabbi Boteach, Bret Stephens, Daniel Goldhagen, Alan Dershowitz. The list goes on and on. The preening self confidence, the nauseating degree of self righteousness, the smugness, the sanctimonious moralizing, the lecturing, the hectoring, the unscrupulousness, the lack of humility and of course– no sense of fair play at all.<\/p>\n

Where does Jeffrey Goldberg get this chutzpah? He admires some of Greenwald’s stands, like on torture, but we all know: that’s \u201ca very Jewish position.\u201d<\/em> Poor Glenn Greenwald. Who knows what happened to him in Hebrew school, and now Goldberg can\u2019t even let him have his anti-torture position in peace. No, it\u2019s the \u201cJew in you\u201d! That\u2019s the only reason you\u2019re against torture, Glenn Greenwald.<\/p>\n

If I were Jeffrey Goldberg I would be a little concerned that perhaps history is more likely to say Jeffrey Goldberg got beaten up in Hebrew school– and that\u2019s why little insecure Jeffrey thought Meir Kahane\u2019s JDL \u201chad all the answers\u201d as he put it,<\/a> at a time when the Kahanists were beating up black people<\/a>, because as much as he prayed and fantasized at night about going back in time and killing Hitler it didn’t look like it was happening. And then Jeffrey realized that American inner-cities are small potatoes. He could get on a plane and get a real gun and be in his very own Jewish army and shoot Arabs, or at least be a prison guard.<\/p>\n

And then Jeffrey thought to himself \u201cAnyone can be a prison guard for Arabs\u201d– maybe Hashem has bigger plans for me. Maybe I can become one of those Middle East experts! If you know the right people you never know how the gig will turn out. And lo and behold now Jeffrey Goldberg is America\u2019s \u201cmost influential Jewish Journalist;\u201d instead of imprisoning Arabs he can fight the good cause in less brutal ways.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a special place in Jewish heaven for Jeffrey Goldberg for all the extracurricular work he did surrounding Trump\u2019s Aipac speech.<\/p>\n

Before the speech, Goldberg was very clear about what was happening: Trump is a fascist. Here are three of his retweets:<\/p>\n

First, the Trump -Hitler comparison.<\/p>\n

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  1. If the Hitler comparison is so flawed then why do 100% of the antisemitic replies to my tweets come from Trump supporters?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    If the Hitler comparison is so flawed then why do 100% of the antisemitic replies to my tweets come from Trump supporters?<\/p>\n

    — Twitnter is Coming (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 23, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n