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Israel firster is a pejorative term used to describe someone who puts the interests of Israel ahead of their home country.
Accused of antisemtism
Shift from dual loyalty to putting Israel's interests above security interests
derogatory: https://www.jta.org/2015/04/22/ny/jewish-students-caught-in-identity-politics-crossfire
History[edit]
American Jews continued to object to Israel's claim that a genuine Jewish life was possible only in Israel. Abram Sachar, then president of Brandeis University declared to the audience at the 1960 conference of the National Jewish Welfare Board that there was no room among Jews "for Israel Firsters whose chauvinism and arrogance find nothing relevant or viable in any area outside Israel."[1]
Suggestion that U.S. security interests and Israel's interests might conflcit was a subject that could proviked heated responses. When former AIPAC staffer M.J. Rosenberg described members of the pro-Israel lobby as "Israel firsters" in a 2011 column for Media Matters, he was denounced as antisemitic and Media Matters stopped running his column.[2]
Josh Ruebner called Dennis Ross the "quintessential Israel-firster".[3] https://swampland.time.com/2012/02/21/sheldon-adelson-all-israel-all-the-time/ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/think-tank-tones-down-israel-commentary-after-criticism-media-matters-writer-defiant https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2012-08-02/ty-article/anti-semitism-is-toxic/0000017f-f4dc-d044-adff-f7fdbc4c0000 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/two-top-think-tanks-may-cut-ties-with-former-aipac-spox-for-calling-critics-anti-semitic/2011/12/12/gIQAX36zpO_blog.html
The origins of the term "Israel firster" are anti-Semitic, according to The Atlantic.[4] According to journalist James Kirchick, the term was popularized in The Spotlight, an antisemetic newspaper published by Willis Carto. Law professor David Bernstein discovered the term in white nationalist publications in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Instauration. By the 2000s, the term was often used by white supremacists and antisemites such as David Duke and the Vanguard News Network.[5]
According to Bernstein, by the end of the 2000s, the term was used more frequently by what he calls the anti-Israel left.[5]
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sounding-off https://mondoweiss.net/2012/02/leading-zionist-historian-and-president-of-brandeis-was-first-to-say-israel-firster-in-1960/
2011-12 Controversy[edit]
In 2011 and 2012, the use of the term "Israel-firster" by left-wing critics of U.S. policy toward Israel ignited a media firestorm in the United States. Left-wing advocacy group Media Matters official MJ Rosenberg accused the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin of having "dual loyalties" to Israel and the United States and labeled Israel hawks as "Israel firsters".[6]
Zaid Jilani, a blogger for the Center for American Progress (CAP), which is affiliated with the Democratic Party, erased the slur from his blogs and tweets after learning of its checkered past. However, Rosenebrg continued to use the term.https://www.jpost.com/opinion/editorials/debunking-the-israel-firster-slur
Historian Jeffrey Herf described the phrase as representing a "classic theme of modern anti-Semitism", hearkening to when Jewish interests were blamed for pushing the United States into World War II.
However, Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, rejected claims that the term was antisemitic.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/courting-controversy/
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000706850018-8.pdf
about whether the term is antisemitic
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-hitler-test https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/12/15/the-israel-firster-brouhaha https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-the-term-israel-first_b_1252789 https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2011/12/27/one-of-these-slurs-is-not-like-the-others https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/04/opinion/etzioni-jewish-voters/index.html
https://en.irna.ir/news/84043630/Zarif-Israel-firsters-not-only-ruined-region-but-betrayed-their https://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/bluntly-firsters-politics/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/center-for-america-progress-group-tied-to-obama-accused-of-anti-semitic-language/2012/01/17/gIQAcrHXAQ_story.html https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/media-matters-mj-rosenberg-renounces-his-use-of-israel-firsters-slander-doubles-down,3124? https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/media-matters-takes-on-israel https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/uproar-over-anti-semitic-writings-reaches-the-white-house/2012/01/19/gIQAIKmNBQ_blog.html
See also[edit]
- ^ Dawidowicz, Lucy (1961). "The United States, Israel, and the Middle East". The American Jewish Year Book,. 62: 195. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ Judis, John (March–April 2014). "Zionist Movement". Foreign Policy. 205: 22. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Ruebner, Josh (Autumn 2016). "Obama's Legacy on Israel/Palestine". Journal of Palestine Studies. 46 (1): 52. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2012-01-19). "Is the Term 'Israel-Firster' Anti-Semitic? (Updated)". The Atlantic. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ a b Bernstein, David (2012-01-13). ""Israel-Firster"". Volokh Conspiracy. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ Smith, Ben (2011-12-07). "Israel rift roils Democratic ranks". Politico. Retrieved 14 September 2023.