Maybe if you started using your given name and not hiding behind a pseudonym, habibi, somebody might take you seriously. A lifelong hiker and camper, I’d wager I’ve spent far more time among cedars than you have. Tramped through virgin cedar swamp just last week.

I don’t waste my time arguing with anti-Semites. Especially twisted, self-hating Jewish anti-Semites. I know you think your screeds are funny. They aren’t. You imagine yourself a gadfly. You’re not.

So take your meds, Habibi. Have a drink. Smoke a joint. And stop polluting the ether.

In the first days of August 1992, the Long Island newspaper Newsday published reports from its Bonn correspondent Roy Gutman, based on interviews in Zagreb, telling of horrendous conditions in Serb-run internment camps in Bosnia. Seeing the potential impact of comparison with Nazi “death camps”, Ruder Finn immediately contacted three major Jewish organizations, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the American Jewish Congress, suggesting they publicly protest. They did. This launched the demonization of Serbs as the new Nazis. In 1993, Ruder Finn was awarded the Silver Medal of the Public Relations Society of America in the category “crisis communication”.
Diana Johnstone “Fools Crusade”.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ruder_Finn‘s_work_for_Croatia – 25k

Part of the problem is that there is a long tradition of Jewish activism to “reshape” societies they are a minority in, even if most in that society doesn’t want transformation. Using disproportionate clout – in part achieved by what commentor David Levavi arrogantly calls here on this thread: Jewish success (due) to cultural and intellectual superiority.

Which results in open manifestation of heavy Jewish involvement and leadership in controversial groups, causes that convulse societies.

And it is a little hard to then demand that those societies pay close attention to other influential, powerful groups for their possible subversions – while demanding in parallel that notice of Jewish power and clout not be mentioned as “anti-Semitic bigotry”.

Freely discuss the clout of christian Texas oilmen, but not Jewish Wall Street financiers.
Complain vigorously of the harmful, disproportionate clout of Cuban-Americans in foreign affairs, but do not mention the Jews involved with AIPAC or the neocons. That is off-limits.
Ignore the prominent role of Jews in 20th Century radicalism, the Communist democide in the Soviet Union. But freely discuss other ethnicities with power beyond their numbers in critical sectors in America and globally.

It’s also more than a little hard to ignore the present impact of Jews and pretend to understand power politics in America.

If Jews wish to avoid such scrutiny they would be better off refraining from forcing their involvement in the affairs of others…be more like Scots-Irish, Filipinos, Japanese Americans that seek reduced frictions and disruptions in favor of “keeping to their own business” “seeking harmonious society”. But many Jews would scorn that as taking the road to mediocrity…and how can they do that when they are – as Levavi says – so culturally and intellectually superior to other groups?

It does seem though that the strategy of Jews seeking a perpetual immunity amulet from criticism by counting on claims of superior victimhood doesn’t work if the reality is of great Jewish power, wealth, and influence. And historical “woe is us!” claims fade from living memory, and from having emotional power. Such an immunity amulet cannot be claimed while agressively wielding power and clout to force reshaping lives of others, national culture. Which some, with no systemic anti-Jewish bias rooted in irrationality or their non-Jewish religions or upbringing – sincerely call excessive Jewish meddling.

Screaming “Anti-Semitism! Anti-Semitism!” on every incident when others push back against Jewish activist campaigns – is a strategy of diminishing returns. It doesn’t just diminish the force of a true accurate charge of anti-Semitism against a bigot – by assailing anyone with a critique of Israel’s actions or a critique of a radical Jew they detest, it causes other impressions to rise:

1. By venomously attacking the character and motive of any critic, where anti-Semitism is just one charge laid out in what the public sees as a coordinated assault (see Walt, Meershiem) – the question gets raised – “Do the Jews indeed have something to hide given the instant bluster and threats and teamwork against a critic?”

2. It fosters a belief that “The Jews”, as a group, are far more coordinated and working together on agenda than the actuality of Jewsih internal debate and factionalism.

3. By ripping into any observation of excessive radical Left Jewish clout, when such clout unquestionably exists and others honestly see it harming rule of law, public safety, culture – Jews shape the public perception to be even more negative towards the Jews. It must not be just clout, where Jews have a close majority of the say in Hollywood and what the ACLU does (Jews are about 27% of members and 40% of ACLU policy-makers) the general public reasons. No, the way they attacked over the questioning of their disproportionate clout must mean it goes past clout, to dominance. And attacks on critics are to maintain that dominance.

4. For a bright people, that take pride in their ability to influence and persuade others, Jews can be quite stupid in collective actions. And breed resentments.

They justly “held the bag” for their excesive enthusiasm and prominance in American Communist activities 1910-1950, and for all the A-Bomb spies Stalin used against us being Jewish.
With Sarah Palin, NYC Jew after NYC Jew in the media punditry class – mostly enamored of Obama – rushed to spin the narrative of her “grotesque, ignorant, unprogressive Christian beliefs that only dumb trailer trash goyim in Flyover country” swallow.
What the public saw was Jew after Jew trashing her and her Christianity. All the Rick Cohens, Josh Micah Marshalls, Froma Harrops, Leon Wieseltiers, Keith Olbermanns, Bilkl Mahers, Harold Meyersons, Gloria Steinhams, David Schusters, Allan Colmes types rushing to outdo one another in their complete contempt of this woman and her intellect and Christian hypocrisy.
That she had Gentile critics as well was sort of lost in the flood of elitist media Jews bashing her and belittling Fundie notions and her “family foolishness, betrayal of her motherly duties, and not getting a sensible abortion”.
That will not play well outside NYC and other elitist redoubts. Not for diminishing Palin with those smear tactices, not for enhancing Jews reputation.

Philis defends the Jewish cause almost as intensely, and some antisemites hate us.

We need Israeli and Jewish leaders who do not corrupt us. The rest will be easy.

Why does a five-foot-eight Jew loom eight-foot-five in the imagination of a contemporary Twenty-first Century Jew hater? Because while Jews and the modern Jewish state are numerically and geographically tiny, Jewish ability is enormous.

Unwilling to attribute Jewish success to cultural and intellectual superiority, Jew-haters revert to deeply ingrained mythology. Ostensibly secular and sophisticated Jew-haters mask their superstition in crude notions of genetics and economics. But at the source, their prejudices are rooted in classic religious fantasy as often as not, projecting their own shortcomings.

As a Jew, I like the pilpul, i.e., fine-grained analysis and argument. I try to keep friendships across the divide, in spite of the fact that American culture does not promote friendship or discussion, especially with those with whom one disagrees (not to mention the pervasive anti-intellectualism). Many times, I have been shocked by being cut off completely, once it is revealed that I am Jewish and Israeli and, here’s the clincher, I’m proud of both. Don’t we all know that little moue of distaste, that slip of the tongue during an argument, that stare? Anti-Semitism is never that far beneath the surface. Why are they posting here? Alas, they are everywhere.

Because the dialectic of the left today makes it kosher.

The dialectic must be correct, therefore facts must be adjusted.