Feeling the wrath of the Israel lobby, ‘WSJ’ neocon virtually accuses some advocates of dual loyalty

Many people have sent me this Bret Stephens column in the Wall Street Journal five days back in which Stephens, a neoconservative and ardent supporter of Israel, reports that he was disinvited that day from a speaking gig at an unnamed pro-Israel organization because he wrote that Jonathan Pollard should not be freed.

I was abruptly disinvited from delivering a keynote to a charitable pro-Israel organization for the sin of opposing, in my last column, the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. 

And that was just the icing on the blizzard of opprobrium—"scurrilous," "unbelievable," "arrogant and callous," "it is anti-Semitic not to free him," and so on—that piled into my inbox from people whose most fervent political identity is their support for Israel.

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