(19. Dezember 2012) What is the evidence that Chuck Hagel is anti-Semitic, or at least borderline anti-Semitic? Apparently he once said, „The political reality is that … the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here [on Capitol Hill].“ The Weekly Standard‘s anonymous „top Republican Senate aide“ is quoted as calling this „the worst kind of anti-Semitism“ because it means Hagel „believes in the existence of a nefarious Jewish lobby that secretly controls U.S. foreign policy.“

Actually, it doesn‘t mean that. It means what it says: Hagel believes that AIPAC, like the NRA, is powerful enough to sometimes intimidate legislators.