Comments on: Shelved: How A Borders Bookstore Linked the Economic Crisis with the “Israel Lobby” (and why I won’t shop there anymore) http://boundlessdrama.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/shelved-how-borders-bookstore-links-the-economic-crisis-with-the-%e2%80%9cisrael-lobby%e2%80%9d-and-why-i-won%e2%80%99t-shop-there-anymore/ Wondering where we are going as a Jewish community - one post at a time. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ombrageux http://boundlessdrama.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/shelved-how-borders-bookstore-links-the-economic-crisis-with-the-%e2%80%9cisrael-lobby%e2%80%9d-and-why-i-won%e2%80%99t-shop-there-anymore/#comment-135 Ombrageux Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:20:38 +0000 http://boundlessdrama.wordpress.com/?p=427#comment-135 I think that's a pretty far-fetched anti-semitic innuendo you're seeing. It's a big display about the current affairs, international relations, and "problems" the U.S.A. is facing at home and abroad. (Including two purely descriptive books: The Next 100 Years and The World Is Flat). Why shouldn't a book about the allegedly undue and negative influence of one lobby on American foreign policy be there? (An interest group that, incidentally, has plenty of non-Jewish backers and does not have the support of many Jewish-Americans.) I think that’s a pretty far-fetched anti-semitic innuendo you’re seeing.

It’s a big display about the current affairs, international relations, and “problems” the U.S.A. is facing at home and abroad. (Including two purely descriptive books: The Next 100 Years and The World Is Flat).

Why shouldn’t a book about the allegedly undue and negative influence of one lobby on American foreign policy be there? (An interest group that, incidentally, has plenty of non-Jewish backers and does not have the support of many Jewish-Americans.)

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