Reply #18: This a trick question right?

[azurnoir]

Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz will host a fundraiser for a Republican congressional candidate in Illinois. The candidate, Joel Pollak, studied under Dershowitz at Harvard. He is running against Democrat Jan Schakowsky.

Pollak is running because Schakowsky -- who is Jewish -- does not love Israel enough. She does love Israel, of course -- "I thought about my childhood again and the number of times I had saved my nickels and dimes to buy a tree certificate that we used for birthdays and anniversaries to plant trees in Israel and make that desert bloom," she said on the floor of the House earlier this year -- but she also might support the existence of a Palestinian state.

Seriously, the evidence that she is even remotely anti-Israel is ridiculous, even by the standards of the professional right-wing smear artist.

She is a self-hating Jew because she never specifically denounced Jimmy Carter or Cindy Sheehan. She is bent on the destruction of the Jewish state because her campaign website links to Amnesty International and the Center for American Progress.

Her actual crime is supporting the upstart liberal Jewish lobbying group J Street. The group aims to make it politically acceptable to actually criticize the actions of the Israeli government by demonstrating that plenty of American Jews don't agree with AIPAC and people like Dershowitz. You know, people who think "automatic" complete destruction of entire villages is a legitimate state response to terrorism, as long as you warn them first, thus making the loss of lives their fault. (This is the "why are you hitting yourself" school of counterterrorism.)

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/16/dershowitz_endorses_republican


now I suppose you do have something to refute that, right?

eta Pollak lost