...The type of grass roots-like political activity in which I saw the organized Jewish community engage at the hearing suggests that AIPAC and similar specifically Zionist political lobby organizations represent only part of the web of control that Jewish or Zionist groups exert or attempt to exert over public discourse about the Middle East, about human rights, about Arabs and about Islam. I tried to tailor my statement to the Passover season just as Rabbi Or N. Rose (Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts) did in his speech before the Committee...

...A large segment of the organized Jewish community is panicked at an open public discussion of the crimes of the State of Israel and at the growing size and potential political strength of the American Muslim community.

Darfur divestment is a red herring that Israel advocacy organizations have cooked up as a distraction. Militant Zionists have used this sort of tactic for decades. In the 30s the most extreme Americans Zionists invariably opposed discrimination against African Americans in order to obscure the key racist principle of Zionism...