The Forward was moved to remark on”Schoenfeld’s penchant for demonizing those with whom he is in disagreement

The Forward was moved to remark on”Schoenfeld’s penchant for demonizing those with whom he is in disagreement,” and it’s true, but then this has always been the Commentary style under the reign of Podhoretz I, and Podhoretz II promises to be even worse. The AIPAC spy scandal is a disaster for the neocons, who are being outed as Israeli assets as well as prodigious liars.

As the Rosen-Weissman trial date approaches, and the defense threatens to blow the whistle on AIPAC’s behind-the-scenes machinations in Washington — including espionage, coupled with an unusually aggressive effort to influence on US foreign policy — the Lobby’s partisans are going a little crazy, as evidenced by the level of vituperation in Schoenfeld’s many posts on this subject. The latest is directed at me, and, in reiterating his litany of smears, once again sets himself up to look foolish.

Schoenfeld pretends that he saw Scheuer’s work on some obscure web site of dubious provenance — “The Jingoist,” of all things — when he knows perfectly well it appeared on BOOTSBUY, a website with 100,000-plus readers daily, and then does his demonization act:

“Readers can judge for themselves. For if The Jingoist is in Holocaust-denial territory, anti-war is not far behind. A good place to begin is the long series that anti-war has devoted to the many Israeli “art students” who in the run-up to September 11 came to our country ostensibly to sketch, draw, and paint, but were actually working deep under cover, spying on UGG Sheepskin cuff bootss.”