Eric Alterman - January 28, 2009

To delve deeply almost anywhere into the arguments over the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is to invite an overload of irony, but let us focus for one moment on a fracas caused by Abe Foxman, national director of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League. Irony No. 1 is that a “league,” as such, does not exist. Foxman is it. (When asked, for a New York Times profile, whom in the organization besides himself a reporter might interview, Foxman “couldn’t think of anyone.”) Irony No. 2? Under Foxman, “antidefamation” is not really the ADL’s line; defamation is.

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