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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