For that, Dorothy Rabinowitz, member of the powerful Wall Street Journal editorial board, returned her embassy invitation with a note attached: "You may advise Ms Callil, and her publisher, that any work that equates the murderous designs of the Nazis and their Vichy collaborators with the Israelis - as she so idiotically does - is scarcely worth any such attention."
Callil becomes the latest to feel the wrath of an anti-anti-Israeli lobby which has parlayed sensitivities to the Holocaust into a stance that any dissent from Israeli policy is not just anti-Semitic but 'un-American' too.
"They see the word Israel and they ignite," Callil said in astonishment. "This... isn't good for democracy, and it's not good for America."
We don't have to delve too far to see the cut of Ms. Rabinowitz and I don't find it impressive.
The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Two days into the JonBenet Ramsey/John Karr media deluge, a mid-fortyish male in line next to me at a food shop groaned at the day's newspaper headlines. "Now," muttered this stranger--though he wore a baseball cap with bill turned backward, which suggested a few things about him one could know right off--"now we're not going to hear about anything but this damned story for the next six weeks."
Concord Monitor April 29. 2005
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal said yesterday that Gordon MacRae, a New Hampshire priest convicted of child sexual assault a decade ago, is the victim of "a corruption of the justice system."
In two articles that appeared on the newspaper's editorial page Wednesday and yesterday, Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the Journal's editorial board, contends that MacRae was wrongly convicted of the rape and bullied into signing false confessions.
In her articles, Rabinowitz offers little new evidence to exonerate MacRae. Rather, she focuses on the personal stories of MacRae's accusers, a group she describes as emotionally troubled and prone to exaggeration.
New York Daily News May 13, 2004
Wall Street Journal pundit Dorothy Rabinowitz - who last month penned an acid assault on the "Jersey Girls," four 9/11 widows who've dared to criticize the Bush administration - received some payback yesterday at the hands of "Jersey Girl" Kristin Breitweiser.
In a message meant for Journal deputy editorial page editor Tunku Varadarajan, but was instead accidently E-mailed to Breitweiser on Tuesday, Rabinowitz wrote: "total and complete - not to mention repetitive - nonsense from people given endless media access to repeat the very same stupid charges, suspicions, and the rest...
