{"id":18795,"date":"2011-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/regthink\/why-are-we-still-talking-about-jonathan-pollard\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:16:10","slug":"why-are-we-still-talking-about-jonathan-pollard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regthink.org\/en\/why-are-we-still-talking-about-jonathan-pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we still talking about Jonathan Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I was once chatting with a University of Toronto professor about the historical relevance of the Jonathan Pollard saga.\u00a0 \u201cPollard is the new Dreyfus!\u201d he exclaimed, a provocative analogy explaining this enduring drama in contemporary diaspora Jewish life.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As the merits of his case and sentencing are endlessly debated, anti-Semitism is inevitably casually evoked, but there seems to be more to the story than an American-style\u00a0<em>J\u2019Accuse<\/em>.\u00a0 Like a perennial fall flowering, Jonathan Pollard is back in the news again.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about this narrative that is so captivating to the American imagination at this particular moment in U.S. politics? I offer two hypotheses about its domestic and foreign-policy significance in Autumn 2011 here:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Speaking before an assembled crowd of 15 rabbis in Boca Raton, Florida, Vice President Joe Biden took the Pollard issue off of the Jewish-American backburner last week.\u00a0 \u201cOver my dead body are we going to let him out before his time,\u201d the New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/01\/us\/politics\/obama-turns-to-biden-to-reassure-the-jews-and-get-them-to-contribute-too.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=pollard&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/01\/us\/politics\/obama-turns-to-biden-to-reassure-the-jews-and-get-them-to-contribute-too.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=pollard&amp;st=cse\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Biden told his audience, supposedly repeating verbatim his conversation with President Obama in a discussion about a potential pardon. \u201cif it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.\u201d\u00a0 While some pundits have speculated that Biden was merely taking the blame for the President \u2014 especially as the Vice-President is considered the administration\u2019s friendlier face to the American Jewish community \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111006181051\/http:\/\/blogs.jpost.com\/content\/biden-pollard-and-context\">others have suggested<\/a>\u00a0that it was a cynical ploy to influence Jewish swing-state voters in Florida.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While it is unclear precisely how Biden\u2019s remarks were intended to rally the Democratic campaign amongst the Jewish electorate (it seems, on its face, to be more controversial than conciliatory, although perhaps just another example of the Vice President\u2019s predilection for foot in mouth disease), this admission comes against the backdrop of this month\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&amp;b=846741&amp;ct=11229303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&amp;b=846741&amp;ct=11229303\">American Jewish Committee survey<\/a>\u00a0showing a decline in Jewish support for President Obama.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The drop is relatively slight however, especially when juxtaposed to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/149522\/jewish-support-obama-down-not-disproportionately.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/149522\/jewish-support-obama-down-not-disproportionately.aspx\">September Gallup poll<\/a>, which demonstrated that Jewish support for Obama is in fact 13 points higher than the general population, leading to the \u201cbottom line\u201d that \u201calthough Obama\u2019s approval rating among-Jewish Americans has been declining, it has generally declined no more than it has among all Americans [\u2026] all in all, Obama continues to do better among Jews than among all Americans, and there has been little change in that pattern so far throughout the first 2 \u00bd years of his administration.\u201d \u00a0Is playing nice \u2014 or even potentially pardoning Pollard \u2014 a cynical ploy to shore up the Jewish vote in the 2012 campaign?\u00a0 If so, it may be time to \u2018a-pollard-gize\u2019 already.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, this domestic agenda seems to clash with foreign policy goals.\u00a0 As the United States moves to block a vote for Palestinian statehood at the UN Security Council, American weapons sales and foreign aid to Israel continue unabated, and both countries collectively hold their breaths in the face of counter-terrorism challenges and the Arab Spring, the special relationship has never been stronger.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At times, it even appears that Israel has the upper hand, witness Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s schooling of President Obama in his own Oval Office and Congress.\u00a0 In some ways, the Pollard affair seems to have emerged as one of few remaining symbols of the distinction between the U.S. and Israel\u2019s national interests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Moreover, as the recent contradictory instances of U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta\u2019s intervention in the case of Ilan Grapel, a dual American-Israeli citizen held in Egypt as a suspected spy for Israel and of the arrest of Shamai K. Leibowitz (grandson of the Jewish theologian and activist Yeshayahu Leibowitz) of spying for Israel in the United States suggest, it seems that where\u00a0 priorities align &#8211; in this case, in reigning in a new Egypt &#8211; there is cooperation, but where policy continues to diverge (Iran), charges of treason may have a political dimension beyond the facts of the case themselves.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Is Pollard the new Dreyfus?\u00a0 He is eligible for parole, if not pardoned first, in 2015.\u00a0 But we may be better able to judge his legacy by November 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was once chatting with a University of Toronto professor about the historical relevance of the Jonathan Pollard saga.\u00a0 \u201cPollard is the new Dreyfus!\u201d he exclaimed, a provocative analogy explaining this enduring drama in contemporary diaspora Jewish life. 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