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...debate around these books runs like this. Jewish neo-conservatives who admire Robertson's staunch support for Israel have come to his defense in the wake of the ADL report and similar articles that have appeared recently in the New York Review of Books. They are willing to indulge Robertson (what they perceive to be) his theological idiosyncrasies so long as he gets the important issue, Israel, correct. For example, a prominent Jewish neo-conservative, Midge Decter, has written a scathing critique of the ADL study in a recent issue of Commentary...
...other side are those Jews such as Rich who are convinced that Robertson's theology cannot simply be brushed aside, and that he and his organization must be viewed as a serious threat to the security of Jews in America...
Both parties to this debate make grave errors in their ideological intransigence. The anti-Robertson left makes a faulty jump from Robertson's pseudo-scholarship, which is genuinely dangerous, to what they falsely take to be the peril of the entire Christian Right. They threaten to compromise the validity of their legitimate critique of Robertson's book by smuggling into that critique a liberal political agenda that smacks of political partisanship, not a general concern for confronting the evil of anti-Semitism...
...conservative apologists, on the other hand, are guilty of whitewashing Robertson's sins in the name of their own Rightist agenda. It is one thing to point out that Robertson is not an anti-Semite plain and simple, and is a generous supporter of the State of Israel. It is another thing altogether to assume that his pro-Israel sentiments somehow excuse his anti-Semitic excesses...