A split in the state antiwar movement proves once and for all that the progressive left has a bunch of single-issue bozos to thank for its woes.

Here we go again: Seems that the group called CT United For Peace was planning an antiwar rally in New Haven on March 18, on the third anniversary of Bush's Iraq war, and a couple of champions of Palestinian rights wanted to include in the platform a demand that Israel get out of Palestine. A colleague relates that "pro-Israel peaceniks went to a planning meeting to argue against that, but lost."

The result was predictable. Now instead of one unified antiwar march, there are going to be two marches. One on the 19th in Hartford, under the umbrella of "Connecticut Opposes the War," which will be an Iraq War-only march that winds up in front of Joe Lieberman's office. CT United For Peace, meanwhile, is sticking to its plan to march in New Haven on Saturday the 18th, and, the hope is, the Zionist enemy will see the folly of its ways under the crushing weight of these protesters, and will depart Palestine, en masse, by sunset...

...I know that there is an interrelationship among issuesof course there is. The point is: Which issues are the proper ones to link back to the war? The March 19 activists are making the point that the money being blown in Iraq should instead be used to "fund health care, education and housing," and that's a pitch-perfect way to lay bare the very real connections between the war and Bush's disaster of a domestic policy...

...The split is also curious when you consider all the dark murmurings coming from the Free Palestine crowd about how Lieberman's pro-war position is inexorably linked to his support for Israel. Instead of taking the most effective stand against the war, they're selfishly splitting the ranks. There's a phrase that could explain this business, a phrase I picked up back in day, from the identity politicians, in fact: It's called "sublimated anti-Semitism."