more here on the zionist influences on the empire and some of its effects but as the author states, mccarthyism always turns around and bites the offender;

Neocons are taking advantage of the neo-McCarthyism Donald Trump has stoked against pro-Palestinian activists on the left to go after more antiwar voices on the right in his own administration. Such witch hunts never stop at their original targets.

he trouble with McCarthyism is that once it gets going, it has a habit of ensnaring figures who were not meant to be its original targets. We’re seeing this with the Donald Trump administration’s and broader right-wing crackdown on speech criticizing Israel, which yesterday was used to fire one of the administration’s own foreign policy picks.

Yesterday the news that Lt. Col. Daniel Davis had been dropped from his planned appointment as a deputy director of national intelligence (DNI) came as swiftly as the news that he had been offered and accepted the job in the first place. Davis — a senior fellow at Defense Priorities and a prominent conservative commentator on the pro-restraint side of the foreign policy divide — came under attack by pro-Israel voices as soon as the news of his hiring went public, focusing on his record of criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization whose mission is meant to be combating antisemitism, warned that Davis’s appointment would be “extremely dangerous” but pointed only to his views on Iran policy and US support for the war on Gaza — not anything antisemitic.

“Wow. So bizarre. Fighting anti-Semitism like never before but installing this guy,” tweeted conservative commentator Mark Levin. “Before you comment, go online and dig into his views and more. Hard to understand this pick by [DNI Tulsi] Gabbard.”.........more.........