The temperate and courageous Kevin MacDonald summarizes the latest phase of that conversation in a valuable link-studded analysis on yesterday’s VDARE.com: “MidEast Policy—Immigration Policy: Is The Other Boot About To Drop?” The good guys (John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Jimmy Carter) and the usual suspects (the ever-flush Southern “Poverty” Law Center, Abe Foxman’s ADL, and David “President-Carter’s-a Jew-Hater-Genocide-Enabler-and-Liar” Horowitz) all figure in MacDonald’s relentless pursuit of the dialogue that does not seek either the validation or permission of certain self-appointed gatekeepers of public opinion.

As the title indicates, however, MacDonald’s specific purpose is to suggest that the time has come to extend the scope of The Conversation to include immigration. The story of how those who in the last century relentlessly championed both immigration without invitation here and Zionist displacement of Arabs there must be told. MacDonald links to his own pioneering scholarship on the subject.

A complementary side dish to MacDonald’s main course is “Essay Linking Liberal Jews with Anti-Semitism Sparks a Furor” by Patricia Cohen in yesterday's Times. It explores how the gatekeepers are managing a complication in their lives, namely, the spectacle of many Jewish intellectuals questioning, nay, rejecting, the Zionist/neo-con-artist “the-sky-is-falling” mentality, defending Palestinian rights against those who violate them, and even exposing “The Holocaust Industry” as a Jewish exercise in the exploitation of Jewish suffering. As Cohen shows, the basic response of the American Jewish Committee and their ilk has been to call these Jewish dissidents “anti-Semites” who, at least indirectly, physically endanger Jews.

Unfortunately for the gatekeepers, the dissidents fire back, claiming that it is the policies of Tel Aviv and DC’s Zionists that incite anti-Jewish behavior, and therefore one of the worst things that could happen to Jews is for the enemies of Zionism to view them as one big Zionist blob. Yet the AJC et al. will apparently keep calling them “anti-Semites” until the smear takes and the usual unpleasant consequences for the smeared follow.

As MacDonald points out, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it until it doesn’t work any more.

And that day is coming like Christmas