I saw this story in the NY Sun as I was coming out of the subway last night, and I figured I could google it so I didn't buy a copy. Well, the Sun online isn't free, and so far, the only other place on the web I've found the story is at Yale Diva, a Yale student blog. She has the usual Blogspot permalink problems, but if you scroll to A Lesson On Our Biases you will find a summary of Qumsiyeh's letter which is very close to my memory of the Sun article.
Earlier today Mazin Qumsiyeh . . . informed the Yale Coalition for Peace of the Straussian/Jewish conspiracy at Yale. He wrote:Hmmmm. "I have a list. . . " "Are you now or have you ever been. . . . " Where have we heard that before?For your information, I include here the list of members of Yale Students "for Democracy", the pro war cabal that subscribes to the same Straussian theology that the no-cons around Bush have been pushing (Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmser, Kristol, Feith). I think you will find the list informative. Note that there is significant overlap of this list with the "Yale Friends of Israel" listserve.The message above was followed by the names of about one hundred Yale Jews.
# posted by Eliana : 7:00 PM
If you want to find out more about Qumsiyeh, he is an extremely prolific polemicist. Yale Diva posts a rant of his (scroll to "Mazin Qumsiyeh, Anti-Semite") which rivals Amiri Baraka for incoherent cliche-ridden false accusations. Sample:
"...It is about Richard Perle, who is a well paid Zionist lobbyist who is promoted to the highest branches of our government and whose "security" company Tritreme brags about how it is going to grow and benefit from the fear of attacks. It is money and control. It is now clearly evident from their own documents that those who put Israel and personal wealth ahead of US public interests were first to plan this war over 15 years ago. . . .It goes on from there. And on. And on.
UPDATE: David Aaronovitch chronicles similar witch-hunting among the British Left.
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