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are no more responsible for what is
happening than anyone else."

from page 76

became bar mitzvah at a heimish shul
"with a second-generation Polish
Jewish" congregation where his
grandfather was gabbai.
After studying journalism at New --
York University, Rifkin embarked on
his career with stints at the Religion
News Service, Baltimore Jewish Times
(during which his work frequently
appeared in the Detroit Jewish News),
United Press International and the Los
Angeles Daily News.
He also has contributed to a variety
of other publications, including the
Washington Post, the Washington
Times, Jerusalem Report and the
Jerusalem Post. In addition, he has
taught courses in journalism, includ-
ing at American University, and
worked in public relations.
He has been a religion journalist
since the mid-1980s when, working
for the Los Angeles Daily News doing
"Hollywood-type" stories, he "got
tired of the insincerity," had a
personal religious revival and
became a religion writer.

Blaming The Jews

Anti-Globalization

Some Jews are active in the anti-glob-
alization movement and have to come
to terms with its anti-Israel and anti-
Semitic bias.
"Many Jews who are involved in the
movement are only genetically Jewish
and have very limited contact with
their Jewish roots," says Rifkin, who
has spent much of the last year speak-
ing to people in the movement in
preparation for this book.
"Others do have an understanding of
their Jewishness, but believe they are
working for a higher good. They think
that anti-Semitism has to be confronted,
but they also must confront globalization.
"Still others have internalized the
values of the movement and blame the
United States and Israel."
The only way to counteract the

"Jews don't control
the multinational
corporations, which
are run according to
capitalist — not
Jewish — values."

Rifkin notes that some left-wing
Jews reason that because their
people have prospered under the
current system, Jews have a spe-
cial responsibility to work toward
alleviating problems associated
with multinational globalization.
"They think of this as tikkun
olam," he says.
Globalization has its good and bad
points, he notes, but many see it as
nothing more than another form of
exploitation.
The anti-globalization movement
views it that way, and some parts of
that movement are anti-Israel and even
anti-Semitic. That is because both
Israel and Jews are great symbols for
the movement, the author explains.
"Because of historic anti-Semitic
stereotypes, Jews can be seen as the
ultimate capitalists, and as globaliza-
tion is capitalism writ large, Jews get
blamed," Rifkin says.
Israel's problems stem from its close
association with the United States,
seen as the main culprit in globaliza-
tion.
And, of course, Israel is the Jewish
state.
Rifkin says blaming Jews for global-
ization's shortcomings is nonsense.
"Jews don't control the multination-
al corporations, which are run accord-
ing to capitalist — not Jewish — val-
ues," the journalist points out. "Jews

— Ira Rifkin

movement's anti-Semitism is to."speak
the truth and try to educate people
about the reality and complexity of the
world," Rifkin says.
Individual Jews should act according
to Judaism's values in dealing with
people and, in that way, deal with the
problems of globalization, he says.
However, in evaluating the good and
bad of globalization, Jews must get
over two hurdles, he says.
Because the anti-globalization move-
ment is rife with anti-Semitism and
anti-Israel sentiments, many Jews don't
want to be associated with it.
A second, very human problem is
that because most Jews have been ben-
eficiaries of the American capitalist
system, they may be reluctant to help
those who have not profited.
Whatever one's views on globaliza-
tion, Rifkin's perceptive book offers
some answers as to why terrorism has
come to America's shores and proffers
an almost universally accepted lesson
from Sept. 11, 2001: The time for spir-
itual provincialism is clearly over. Fl