Hussein Ibish has written a fascinating piece on, well, me. And if you don't find it fascinating, it's not Hussein's fault, it's the subject's. The point of the piece: Extremists, left and right, hate me:
Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic
magazine is a fascinating case in point. He's an influential columnist
and blogger with a strong ethnic Jewish perspective and a deep
attachment to Israel. This makes him anathema to many Arab and Muslim
Americans (I've been vilified for agreeing to be interviewed by, and
later -- horror of horrors -- coauthoring an article
with, him), and to many on the extreme left, including some ultraleft
Jewish Americans. But he's also a strong critic of the occupation; the
settlements (he has written sympathetically about settlement boycotts);
Islamophobia (I'd note that his initial speculation that Islamists
might have been involved in the Norway terrorist attacks was hardly out
of bounds and bore no resemblance to the disgraceful ravings of
Jennifer Rubin or John Podhoretz); paranoid TSA pseudo-security
practices (about which he has written hilariously); and bigotry in
general. This provokes the ire of a great deal of the extreme right,
including the Jewish far-right. So the extremes on all sides dislike
him a great deal, and they are disliking him more with every passing
day.
I'm actually semi-likable, much of the time. But try telling that to the nutjobs. Anyway, read the whole thing. Maybe I'll post the whole thing, if Hussein gives me permission. As Pamela Geller well knows, I don't do anything without permission from the Ay-rabs.
