Neoconservatism: The Vanguard of Antisemitism

Most American Jews did not vote for the War Party, insofar as they had any option not to, at either the last Presidential or the last Congressional Election. And large numbers of Israeli Jews make a point of voting against the War Party at every opportunity.

They all deserve better, as the whole world does, than the neoconservative movement, thanks to whose activities it is really very likely that no charge of antisemitism, no matter how valid, will ever be taken seriously again.

But look at the list of signatories to the Project for the New American Century, just for a start. If Francis Fukuyama (a partially lapsed but now returning neocon), Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle or Zalmay Khalizad is Jewish, then I for one will be extremely surprised. Never mind Jeb Bush.

Even people whose names look as if they might be - George Weigel, Donald Rumsfeld, Gary Bauer - are not, Weigel being in fact a German-descended Catholic (and biographer of John Paul II, to whom he should have paid more attention), Rumsfeld a German-descended Protestant-if-anything, and Bauer one of America's leading Evangelical Protestants (and also, obviously, of German descent).

Yet they have presumed to open the way for all manner of vilification and victimisation of Jews for ever more. I for one strongly suspect that they are in reality visceral antisemites.

In fact, I struggle to think of any other explanation.