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and opposing certain Israeli
policies," Dr. Tobin said. "A
lot of anti-Israel rhetoric is
really thinly veiled anti-
Semitism.
"Let's look at a com-
parable situation (to claims
that AIPAC money deter-
mines the way politicians
vote)," he said. "Consider
comments like 'the Saudis
control George Bush.' The
ADC (Arab-American Anti-
Discrimination Committee)
goes crazy about those
remarks, and rightly so."
Mr. Zogby and other critics
of Israel "have to be careful"
with their language, Dr.
Tobin said. "Anti-Semitism
is a very old tradition and he
may be tapping into it. He
may be bringing up
`legitimacy' for anti-
Semitism, and that's what's
most dangerous."
In his 1982 article
"J'Accuse," Commentary
Editor Norman Podhoretz
described an anti-Semite as
one who judges Israel by one
standard and the rest of the
world by another.
Mr. Zogby defined an anti-
Semite as one who "fears the
organized Jewish commun-
ity and feels that community
is a threat not only to him
but to the values and cul-
tures he holds dear."
Mr. Zogby said he not only
does not fear the organized
Jewish community, he
respects many elements of it
and of Israel — namely,
those who share his goal for
a two-state solution for
Israel-Palestinian peace.
"I'm not a friend of Israel.
How can I be when I've been
to Lebanon and seen the
effects of what Israel has
done?" said Mr. Zogby. "But
I'm not a hater of Israel,
either."
Raymond Tanter is a pro-
fessor of political science at
the University of Michigan
who served on the National
Security Council staff in the
Reagan administration, ad-
vising the president on Leb-
anon, Israel and Libya.
Professor Tanter says anti-
Semitism cannot be defined
"from the context of words
as much as the content of
character."
Patrick Buchanan, a
White House aide in the
Nixon and Reagan ad-
ministrations and a syn-
dicated columnist, recently
charged Israel and its
"Amen corner" in the
United States with being the
only ones "beating the
drums" for war in the Mid-
dle East.
A number of Jews insisted
such comments by
Buchanan, who in the past
has said that no Jews were
James Zogby:
"These charges are reckless,
dangerous and false."
gassed at Treblinka, con-
stituted anti-Semitism. But
would they have made the
same charges if the "beating
the drums" remark had been
uttered by former Secretary
of State George Schultz, a
longtime supporter of Israel,
Professor Tanter asked.
Instead of "name calling,"
Professor Tanter recom-
mended a careful review of
Mr. Zogby's record, espe-
cially his comments on
Israel.
Although Mr. Zogby sup-
ports a two-state solution in
the Middle East and has
forged close friendships with
Jews who share his views, he
also supports the Palestine
Liberation Organization and
endorsed the U.N.'s in-
famous "Zionism is racism"
resolution.
Some suggest his decision
to promote a two-state solu-
tion stems not from his belief
that Israel has the right to
exist, but from an accep-
tance that the Jewish state
is a political reality.
But if support for the PLO
constitutes anti-Semitism,
pundits ask, what of the
many Jews who also label
the organization "the sole
representative of the Pales-
tinian people"? Can they,
too, be considered anti-
Semites?
Among Mr. Zogby's
backers is Richard Cohen of
the Washington Post. In an
Oct. 3 column in the Post, he
labeled the A AI "a
vociferous champion of the
Palestinian cause and a
critic of Israel who has
sometimes used industrial-
strength language." But, he
added, Mr. Zogby "is no Jew-
hater."
Mr. Cohen goes on. to say
that "anti-Zionism is not the
same as anti-Semitism. I
would not ask a Palestinian
to be a supporter of
Israel." ❑