Left wing journalist Eric Alterman, now a journalism professor at the City University of New York, launches a particularly mean-spirited attack on Marin Peretz, long the owner of The New Republic, as new ownership takes over. Alterman is the creator of the list that outed people who were "reflexively pro-Israel". MSNBC seems to have deleted that particular column of Alterman's that originally ran on its website, but it is still available on the website of David Irving and many other places. Alterman also wrote an earlier piece in The Nation insulting Peretz and other supporters of Israel in the media. Cathy Young, of Reason Magazine and the Boston Globe, earlier noted Alterman's apparent problems with Jews and Jewishness:I read a stunning recent commentary by author and pundit Eric Alterman on the British Muslim Council's decision to boycott the ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The reason given for the boycott was that the...(Read Full Post)