"...that kind of essentially adolescent angst, which I imagine leaves you unmoved. I envision you listening to Schubert or someone equally upstanding."

Leaves me unmoved too.

I also listen to Schubert (I assume that Schubert is a metonym for classical music).

I am also pro-Zionist and see no connection between women's musical complaints and zionism.

"...and Christopher Hitchens' genuine and charming politesse while refusing to grant Israel the same re-evaluation he has accorded his other previous beliefs."

The less said about Chris Hitchens' the better.

Don't know why anyone takes that disgusting drunkard seriously. His attack on Elie Wiesel in itself should have made him persona non grata to all thinking liberals.

His recently found "Jewish" mother was a politically fortuitous discovery and just in the nick of time as he was about to be taken to task for his "former" endorsement of the Holocaust denier and antisemite David Irving.

Hitchens refuses to reconsider his anti-Zionism stance because he knows that he will not be taken to task for it, but will be reasoned with about it the way Daphne Merkin did.

The belief that one can use reason to persuade con artists like Hitchens, who at bottom is just another showman little different from his nemesis Galloway, and to start using reason to expose his hypocrisy.

You can’t be an antizionist and still be pro-Jewish. It’s like being anti-enlightenment and wanting to be seen as rational.

"You can’t be an antizionist and still be pro-Jewish. It’s like being anti-enlightenment and wanting to be seen as rational. "

I agree with that. But the way Daphne describes him as "chivalrous" I have seen also. His received (fron the Left) wisdom about Israel is a huge blind spot but I do appreciate his defense of classical liberalism and his willingness to call out his old comrades on the Left aobut Iraq.