Instant celebrity

Martin Sherman discusses Peter Beinart in a JPost article.

Indeed, it was Israel-bashing – and Israel-bashing alone – that catapulted Beinart into instant celebrity.


After all, imagine for a moment that he had written a brilliant article, whose major theme was Israel’s cutting-edge achievements in science, technology, medicine, agriculture and telecommunications, and extolled the central role Israeli ingenuity and innovation played in saving lives (including Muslim lives), reducing hunger and improving living standards for millions across the globe. It would clearly be beyond the realm of plausibility that The New York Review of Books would have assigned him the 5,000- word slot that it did for his diatribe against Israel and against the US Jewish establishment for supporting it.
Read full article: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=272258