On Jews and The American Conservative Magazine

By Jeffrey Goldberg
David Schraub has a nuanced view of Glenn Greenwald's decision to write for The American Conservative:

I cannot think of a conversation that has this extreme a ratio of heat to light. I think most American Jews have a definitively negative view of The American Conservative, because Buchanan-style conservatism has always been extremely unpopular with American Jews and most Jews do consider him to be flatly anti-Semitic. Greenwald's writing in that magazine was, at the very least, probably a tactical mistake regardless of the content, if the goal is to persuade the Jewish community writ large that the dovish positions that Greenwald holds are a safe location for them. But I don't think he himself is anti-Semitic or that there are any grounds to imply otherwise.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/02/on-jews-and-the-american-conservative-magazine/9606/