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  • Obama and Which Jews?

    Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:51 PM | By Emily Bazelon

    The crazy thing though, Hanna, about the fringe obsession with Obama and Jewish conspiracy is that it's happening even as the Jews who worried that Obama wouldn't show enough allegiance to Israel are worrying more. Before the election, Obama the candidate held the hands of the little old Jewish ladies with blue hair in Florida who want a president who will put Israel first no matter what—even when the Israeli government doesn't necessarily deserve that kind of fealty—and reassured them that he wouldn't move even the teeniest step away from Bush's Israel stance. (I won't call it pro-Israel, because I don't think it actually works out that way all the time.) And in the end... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

  • Obama and the Jews

    Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:17 PM | By Hanna Rosin

    What is it with Obama and the Jews? Ever since he chose Rahm Emanuel, the child of an Israeli, as his chief of staff, conspiracy theories have raged about Obama's connection to the Jews... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com.)

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