That name calling again

An article in the Melbourne Age caught me eye; A perilous relationship is a commentary by Jewish American Norman Birnbaum. I’ll just feed some snippets:

“We can also be sure that should we dissent from the US Jewish community's central item of faith, that Israel can do no wrong, we will be pilloried. When our gentile fellow citizens express doubt, they are accused of anti-Semitism. Those of us who are Jewish are taxed with self-hatred.”

Birnbaum then goes on to earn a few more pejoratives:

“On the gentile side, Holocaust guilt and the philo-Semitism of US Calvinist Protestantism have made American Jewry acceptable. Simultaneously, the 17th-century Puritans' idea of the United States as a New Israel readied their descendants to view the state of Israel as spiritually and politically akin to our nation.”

“The American Diaspora, however, is living well beyond its political means. Its ability to help Israel indefinitely is questionable.”

“America is in serious danger of becoming a nation defined not by citizenship but by bargains among struggling ethnic and religious communities, united in an impossible project of global domination.”