What the Fuck?
I just stumbled across this Adbusters editorial drawing attention to the Jewishness of Bush's administration -- by providing a list of the 50 most influential necons in the U.S. and indicating which ones are Jewish. I can kind of see the impulse here -- to examine how U.S. foreign policy is perhaps shaped by Israeli policies, particularly in regard to the Iraq conflict -- but to conflate ideology and ethnicity is simply the wrong approach and extremely dangerous.
"Here at Adbusters, we decided to tackle the issue head on and came up with a carefully researched list of who appear to be the 50 most influential neocons in the US (see above). Deciding exactly who is a neocon is difficult since some neocons reject the term while others embrace it. Some shape policy from within the White House, while others are more peripheral, exacting influence indirectly as journalists, academics and think tank policy wonks. What they all share is the view that the US is a benevolent hyper power that must protect itself by reshaping the rest of the world into its morally superior image. And half of the them are Jewish."
The goal of the editorial was to stimulate discussion about the issue, which it certainly has done.

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