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became an activist in the French Zionist
    movement; during World War II through Israel's founding, she wrote extensively on Zionism. The son
    of a prominent American Hebraist, Chomsky was raised in a Zionist home and, shortly after Israel's
    independence, spent time on a kibbutz. Both the public campaigns vilifying Arendt in the early 1960s
    and Chomsky m the 1970s were spearheaded by the ADL. (Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt
    [New Haven 1982], 105 - 8,138 - 9, 143 - 4,182 - 4,223 - 33, 348; Robert F. Barsky, Noam Chomsky
    [Cambridge 1997], 9 - 93; David Barsamian (ad.), Chronicles of Dissent [Monroe, ME: 19921, 38)
    19 For an early prefigurement of my argument, see Hannah Arendt, "Zionism Reconsidered" (1944),
    m Ron Feldman (ed.), The Jew as Pariah (New York: 1978),159.
    20 Making It (New York: 1967),336.
    21 Breaking Ranks (New York: 1979),335.
    22 Robert I. Friedman, "The Anti-Defamation League Is Spying on You," in Village Voice (11 May
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    1993). Abdeen Jabara, "The Anti-Defamation League: Civic Rights and Wrongs," in Covert Action
    (Summer 1993). Matt Isaacs, "Spy vs Spite," in SF Weekly (2 - 8 February 2000).
    23 Elie Wiesel, Against Silence, selected and edited by Irving Abrahamson (New York: 1984), v. i,
    283.
    24 Novick, The Holocaust, 147. Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Jewish Presence (New York: 1977), 26.
    25 "Eruption in the Middle East," in Dissent (Winter 1957).
    26 "Israel: Thinking the Unthinkable," in New York magazine (24 December 1973).
    27 Norman G. Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel — Palestine Conflict (New York: 1995),
    chaps 5-6.
    28 Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle (Boston 1983), 4.
    29 Elie Wiesel's career illuminates the nexus between The Holocaust and the June war. Although he
    had already published his memoir of Auschwitz, Wiesel won public acclaim only after writing two
    volumes celebrating Israel's victory. (Wiesel, And the Sea, 16)
    30 Kaufman, Ambiguous Partnership, 287, 306 - 7. Steven L. Spiegel, The Other Arab Israeli Conflict
    (Chicago: 1985), 17, 32.
    31 Benny Morris, 1948 And After (Oxford 1990), 14 - 15. Uri Bialer, Between East and West
    (Cambridge 1990), 180-1
    32 Novick, The Holocaust, 148.
    33 See, for example, Amnon Kapeliouk, Israel: la fin des mythes (Paris: 1975).
    34 Novick, The Holocaust, 152.
    35 Commentary, "Letter from Israel" (February 1957). Throughout the Suez crisis, Commentary
    repeatedly sounded the warning that Israel's "very survival" was at stake.
    36 Abba Eban, Personal Witness (New York 1992), 272.
    37 Peter Grose, Israel in the Mind of America (New York 1983), 304.
    38 A.F.K. Organski, The $36 Billion Bargain (New York 1990), 163, 48.
    39 Finkelstein, Image and Reality, chap. 6.
    40 Novick, The Holocaust, 149-50. Novick cites here the noted Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner.
    41 Ibid., 153, 155.
    42 Ibid.. 69-77.
    43 Tom Segev, The Seventh Million (New York: 1993), part Vl.
    44 Concern for survivors of the Nazi holocaust was equally contrived a liability before June 1967,
    they were silenced; an asset after June 1967, they were sanctified.
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    45 Response (December 198S). Prominent Holocaust-mongers and Israel-supporters like ADL
    national director Abraham Foxman, past president of the AJC Morris Abram, and chairman of the
    Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Kenneth Bialkin, not to mention
    Henry Kissinger, all rose to Reagan's defense during the Bitburg visit, while the AJC hosted west
    German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's loyal foreign minister as the guest of honor at its annual meeting
    the same week. In like spirit, Michael Berenbaum of the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum
    later attributed Reagan's Bitburg trip and statements to "the naive