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Lanny davis has a michael lerner moment

Michael Lerner OpinionJournal Feb 12, 2003

So why was I being blackballed over the peace rally?

My sin was publicly criticizing the way that A.N.S.W.E.R., one of the four groups sponsoring the San Francisco demonstration, has used the antiwar demonstrations to put forward anti-Israel propaganda. An A.N.S.W.E.R. spokesperson, speaking on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, said that they didn't want a "pro-Israel" speaker at their rally.

Lanny Davis OpinionJournal Aug 8, 2006

A friend of mine just returned from Connecticut, where he had spoken on several occasions on behalf of Joe Lieberman. He happens to be a liberal antiwar Democrat, just as I am. He is also a lawyer. He told me that within a day of a Lamont event--where he asked the candidate some critical questions--some of his clients were blitzed with emails attacking him and threatening boycotts of their products if they did not drop him as their attorney.

And while we're on the topic of liberalism's illiberalism here's another recent item:
Fania Oa-Salzberger OpinionJournal Aug 10, 2006

Mr. Shamir's film records one of the most painful and hopeful moments in recent Israeli and Palestinian history, the pullout from Gaza of all Israeli military and civilian presence a year ago. His account of the evacuation depicts the inner rifts and the military risks accepted by a majority of Israelis last August, in the hope that Gaza could lead the way to a peaceful neighborhood with a future sovereign Palestine. Hope blew up in a barrage of Kassam missiles on southeastern Israel a few months later. A previous Shamir documentary, "Checkpoint," pointedly criticized the Israeli government and army for their treatment of Palestinian civilians during the Intifada. Yet Mr. Shamir became the enemy of peace in Edinburgh this summer.
The Israeli government is obviously to blame. How dare it fund festival tickets for filmmakers and artists who criticize its own policies? How dare it support the circulation of Israeli books, theater, cinema and art in the world, regardless of their authors' political positions?

Notice that there's no "u" in her name.

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