wann ist opposition gegenüber israel antisemitisch?

When Does Opposition to Israel or the Israel Lobby Indicate Anti-Semitism?

Writing for the New York Times online on March 4, 2007, Stanley Fish asked the question, “Why Does Anti-Semitism Persist?” Quoting Professor Charles Small of Yale University, Professor Fish notes, “Increasingly, Jewish communities around the world feel under threat,” and he blames three words for that feeling: “Israel, Iraq and anti-Semitism.”

Here’s how Professor Fish explains the connection: “Much of the world has been opposed to the Iraq war from its beginning, and now after four years 70 percent of Americans share the world’s opinion.
Some who deplore the war believe that those who got us into it and cheered it on did so, at least in part, out of a desire to improve Israel’s position in the Middle East. Those who hold this view (and of course there are other analyses of the war’s origins) fear that the same people - with names like Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Abrams, Kristol, Kagan, Krauthhammer, Wurmser, [the convicted felon] Libby and Lieberman - are pushing for a strike against Iran, arguably a greater threat to Israel than Iraq ever was. Why, they ask, should our foreign policy be held hostage to the interests of a small country that is perfectly capable of defending itself and is guilty of treating the Palestinians, whose land it appropriated, in ways that are undemocratic and even, in the opinion of many, criminal?”

Well put. But, when it comes to the origins of Bush’s Iraq war, readers of James Bamford’s book, A Pretext for War, and Ron Suskind’s book, The Price of Loyalty, know that improving Israel’s position played a key role. Readers of Bamford’s book also will recall his indictment of the arguably treasonous activity of three American neoconservative Jews, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser.

In their 1996 policy paper, “A Clean Break: A Strategy for Securing the Realm” - written for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, no less! — Perle, Feith and Wurmser recommended that Israel find pretexts for waging wars of aggression that would roll back its Arab neighbors. “The centerpiece of their recommendations was the removal of Saddam Hussein as the first step into remaking the Middle East into a region friendly, instead of hostile, to Israel.” [Bamford, p. 262]<<

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