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Valerie Plame's Real Blunder
(Tablet) James Kirchick - Valerie Plame Wilson got into trouble for retweeting a vile anti-Semitic screed entitled "America's Jews are driving America's wars." Plame was foolish enough to implicate all Jews in advocating war with Iran, instead of simply identifying a few convenient culprits. The article proposes that Jews be barred from assuming "national security positions involving the Middle East." Dark insinuations about nefarious Jewish political influence, dual loyalty to Israel, and "warmongering" on behalf of a foreign country have been central themes of far right and not-so-far left political discourse for quite some time. The writer is a visiting fellow with the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution.