I've been critical of Likud and the rest of the Israeli right wing for about, oh, 25 years.
Outspoken, even; and half my family is Jewish, so they're a bit sensitive about such things.
I don't hate Jewish people. I don't hate Israel. I
do hate tyrants, and I have never hesitated to say so when I thought Likud and its lackeys were hiding their dirty antics behind the Magen David.
As for Aztlan.net and
La Voz de Aztlan (The Voice of Aztlan), it's the hobby-horse of Ernesto Cienfuegos, a radical Mexican-American who has bought into the Zionist Conspiracy myth, hook-line-and-sinker. Even worse than most of his compatriots from Rense.com, he's allowed his paranoia to fester into a hot, infected wound. (The Rense.com Zionophobes at least
try to avoid blatent bigotry.)
The Israeli government, the Likud party, and the Mossad/Shin Bet have certainly done some unsavory things. This has nothing to do with Monica Lewinsky and Chandra Levy being "Jewesses", as Cienfuegos sneered. And the Judaism of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle) has been flogged as a reason for distrust of the Jewish community since the end of WWI, in spite of the fact that it's been long established that she was
far less culpable than the French government made her out to be.
Yes, Americans are probably more sensitive to bigotry against Jewish people than any other group around. It's understandable, since we have held ourselves up as the great protector of human rights, but utterly failed the European Jewry during WWII, in spite of ample knowlege about large-scale genocide being perpetrated by the Nazis.
It's easy, though, to avoid anti-Semitism-by-association. Simply learn to separate issues of Israeli statecraft and espionage from the culture and religion that is Judaism. By ignoring that simple distinction, Sr. Cienfuegos has gotten caught up in the oldest D.I.Y. mind-f*ck in the book, made a fool of himself and his paper, and has disgraced the movement of the people he otherwise claims to serve.
--bkl