http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/12/glenn-greenwald-stands-by-israel-firsters-smear-in-column-complaining-of-anti-semitism-smear/Dude takes obnoxious left-wing writer Glenn Greenwald to task for using the term "Israel Firsters" in a column.
There is some inside baseball, but the author of the post completely misses some very cogent points:
1. The antisemitism accusation is getting as worn as the racism accusation due to over-use and mis-use.
2.
Some Americans do put Israel's interest before America's. Quite a few of them are very vocal about it and when folks are so gauche to point it out, out comes the antisemitism card.
3. Not all Israel-Firsters are Jewish. Quite a few in Christian fundy or charismatic churches, though the Jewish Israel-Firsters have traditionally been quicker to use the antisemitism charge and get all bent out of shape when confronted with the obvious.
4. "Dual Loyalties" do exist. Even wrote about it in the Bible as something to be avoided:
Matt 6:24 KJV
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
When one encounters an American who puts their ethnicity or another country before America, it is right and proper to call them out on it. I have done so when I have seen it. They deserve the criticism.
For my own part, I usually take Israel's part in its conflicts with its savage neighbors. Because its neighbors
are savages(1), not because Israel is anything special, other than a relatively decent westernized country. When Israel's interests collide with America's, though, I side with America and expect fellow Americans to do so as well.
“Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.”
----Lord Palmerston
(1) Is there any less sympathetic group than the "Palestinians?" They'd be an humorous caricature were they not so stupid and brutish.