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Published in The Press Saturday November 10, 2007

The article was originally published by the Washington Post on Sunday, November 4, 2007; Page B03
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OPINION

Are US Jews too powerful? Not even close

Ruth Wisse — Washington Post

These days it's becoming downright chic to hint forebodingly that America's Jews are just too powerful. But whether it's the political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt or former president Jimmy Carter, those who accuse modern Jews of having excessive clout are getting it precisely backward. ....

The new United Nations, tribune of emerging post-colonial nations, did not protect Israel from assault, and over time the world body became a party to the Arab League's war against Jewish statehood. ....

In its August meetings, according to the Hudson Institute, the (revamped) UN Human Rights Council directed three-quarters of its indictments of individual states against Israel and 2% against the thuggish regime running Burma.

( Ruth Wisse is a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard. Her latest book is Jews and Power. Article originally published by the Washington Post on Sunday, November 4, 2007; Page B03)
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