Editor’s Note: Considering the recent, alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria, it is worthwhile to revisit Kevin MacDonald’s article entitled “The Organized Jewish Community: Wall-to-wall Support for a Strike on Syria,” which was published in the Occidental Observer on 6 September 2013. Syria has been in the Israel lobby’s crosshairs to varying degrees for decades.[1] It is timely to present MacDonald’s analysis of how the notion of American intervention and regime change in Syria enjoys widespread support amongst the Jewish elite. An obvious pattern has emerged: this elite and its adherents will use brutal proxy forces such as ISIS, insidious moral justifications, and the United States’ military might to destroy Israel’s enemies.
[1] Please see John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, (New York, 2007), Chapter 9 “Taking Aim at Syria,” pp. 263-279.
One of the self-deceptions of Jewish life is the belief that “two Jews, three opinions” — the idea that Jews are especially likely to disagree with one another. But on critical issues like Israel, immigration, multiculturalism and Christianity in the public square, the Jewish community speaks with one (very powerful) voice. A Bloomberg article illustrates the broad-based support among Jews for a strike on Syria (“Adelson New Obama Ally as Jewish Groups Back Syria Strike). The broad-based Jewish support for a military strike on…