{"id":16575,"date":"2012-01-20T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2012-01-20T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:13:10","slug":"benjamin-weinthal-white-house-troubled-by-anti-semitic-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16575","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Weinthal: White House troubled by \u2018anti-Semitic think tank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT<br \/>\n01\/20\/2012 00:41<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BERLIN \u2013 The media firestorm unleashed by allegedly anti- Semitic bloggers at a prominent think tank affiliated with the US Democratic Party resulted Thursday in a White House Jewish affairs official terming the situation at the Center for American Progress to be \u201ctroubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a Washington Post online article on Thursday, Jarrod Bernstein, the new White House liaison with the Jewish community, told Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, that what was unfolding at CAP was \u201ctroubling,\u201d and, \u201cthat [the attitude toward Israel at the think tank] is not this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/International\/Article.aspx?id=252605\" target=\"_blank\">E-mail reveals anti-Semitism at US think tank <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JewishWorld\/JewishNews\/Article.aspx?id=251699\" target=\"_blank\">NGOs slam \u2018anti-Semitic\u2019 US think tank comments<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/International\/Article.aspx?id=254410\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;White House troubled by \u2018anti-Semitic think tank'&#8221; by Benjamin Weinthal<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: &#8220;The \u201canti-Semitism\u201d smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on&#8221; by Glen Greenwald<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are many points to make about how this campaign has manifested, but I want to focus on one amazing aspect of it. Because these \u201cleading Jewish groups\u201d have whittled away their credibility by continuously exploiting charges of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d for political gain and debate-suppressing ends, it is no longer sufficient for them simply to spout the accusation and be taken seriously. They are now required to specify what exactly is out of bounds and what makes someone \u201canti-Semitic\u201d as opposed to a mere critic of Israeli actions. And in their answers here one finds extremely revealing \u2014 and damning \u2014 facts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/19\/the_smear_campaign_against_cap_and_media_matters_rolls_on\/\">Click here to read &#8220;The \u201canti-Semitism\u201d smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on&#8221; by Glen Greenwald<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT 01\/20\/2012 00:41 BERLIN \u2013 The media firestorm unleashed by allegedly anti- Semitic bloggers at a prominent think tank affiliated with the US Democratic Party resulted Thursday in a White House Jewish affairs official terming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16585,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions\/16585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}