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Military Anti-Semitism

Academic scholarship on major social problems often runs into political minefields. Works on anti-Semitism run even more complicated risks. Joseph Bendersky's detailed analysis of an aspect of the "demonizing" of Jews in the US might well have fallen on the academic battlefield had he not documented his long exposition so well. The "Jewish Threat" takes up anti-Semitic attitudes at the officer level in the US Army for roughly the first three-quarters of the 20th century. By focusing on officers, most of whom were connected to Military Intelligence, he documents the weight of anti-Semitism on policy-making. His account depends heavily on...