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Friday, February 20, 2009 12:00 AM

Jeffrey Goldberg's gasping, dying smear tactics

Neocons have long tossed around the "anti-Semite" and "anti-Israel" accusations to stifle debate over American Middle East policy. It doesn't work any longer.

Glenn Greenwald

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Friday, February 20, 2009 07:57 AM

Norm Finkelstein of DePaul

Mr. Greenwald has again accurately named and described a real phenomenon in American political and cultural life--the neocon syllogism that opposition to any Israeli policy = antisemitism. If this phenomenon has indeed lost its power, who then was the last victim of the phony antisemitism smear? I nominate Norm Finkelstein of DePaul University. Following a pattern described by Mr. Greenwald, his employer denied him tenure in 2006 (despite an exemplary publication and teaching record) in a move many have seen as a response to a smear campaign led by Alan Dershowitz.

Benton Williams

History Department

DePaul University

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