A lot of things about the Leftist alliance starts making more sense when one realizes they are a religious, not political, organization. Religion is actually what binds them. Because there’s no way in hell the anti gay born blacks and the pro gay homosexual crowd share the same “politics”.

If people thought “democracy” wasn’t a feasible goal in Iraq, wait until they realize that America is in a worst situation than Iraq ever was in. There will be no “surges” into the inner cities to clean them out of Democrat terrorists.

The author surmised that Dershowitz did that because he believes it is of the utmost importance that both political parties are on record as being pro-Israel. Hence, he has to remain in the fold and do his best to steer them in the right direction.

I’m not giving more than a rough impression of the article. Sorry I can’t remember where I read it — maybe the Tablet or the Weekly Standard? — and I think maybe it was written by Lee Smith.

In addition, many people were in denial about the extent of the horrors. Although some knew, the details were not widely and well known until after the war. Also, please read this post of mine. I think it explains quite a bit about why it’s difficult in general to heed warnings about such atrocities.

I just saw that you linked another article, which describes the reluctance of some Jews to be activist about it (Rabbi Wise is discussed). I’m sure there were such people, but there were plenty of others who were very activist and were rebuffed by the administration. And as you can see by the Koestler article (which, interestingly enough, appeared originally in the NY Times magazine), even the Times was not completely silent. The point is that pleas (such as Koestler’s) tended to fall on deaf ears in general, and Koestler explains why.

http://fresnozionism.org/2011/08/the-failure-of-the-liberal-jewish-establishment-then-and-now/

xhttp://fresnozionism.org/2011/08/the-failure-of-the-liberal-jewish-establishment-then-and-now/

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Modern_History/1914-1948/The_Holocaust/American_Response.shtml

I was surprised because if anyone should have known what was happening to European Jews it would be their relatives in America.

How to Get So Dead in This Town

Here’s his latest (as I write) piece,
Jew Without A Gun
about his and his family’s experiences during the 1992 LA Riots.

Of course, there were a few secular leftist Jews who weren’t against the Germans when the Germans and Soviets were briefly allied (1939 to June of 1941), but after that even leftist Jews were anti-Hitler.

And in general American Jews did all they could to sponsor Jews coming to this country to escape the Nazis, and to publicize their plight.

You may be thinking of the US government itself, which in the main did not facilitate the entrance of Jews here even in those dire times. It wasn’t easy to get in, and it required sponsors, etc., and there were strict quotas (don’t have time to look up the details now, but that’s my recollection).

And you may be thinking of the publisher of the NY Times, who didn’t publicize the plight of the Jews in WWII very much despite the fact that he was Jewish.