So now he's going on hiatus. But before he does, he refuses to substantiate his baseless claims that I have lied about his work, and refuses to retract two patent untruths he has written about me.
Then, for good measure, he throws in another disgusting, despicable smear: that I am a "scape-goater of Jews." Not a critic of current Israeli policy, with a long history of support for the Jewish state, whose blog has long had an anti-Semitism watch feature, and who has written, to take one sentence out of countless, that anti-Semitism is "an eternal toxin for which my own Church bears a huge amount of responsibility and which needs to be confronted whenever it appears". No: "a scape-goater of Jews." He knows what resonances that phrase has. It's an assertion of anti-Semitism without even the courage to use the words. Then he announces he is on hiatus. Having accused two writers, me and Peter Beinart, of errors, omissions, bigotry and ignorance, he refuses to substantiate any of his charges, and walks off in a huff.
The core identity of the Atlantic is intellectual honesty. It's clear by now that this is something Goldberg has difficulty understanding.
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