Jarvis has his own beef with Cole<\/a>, over Prof. Cole’s ridiculous accusation that Mohammed, Omar & Ali of Iraq the Model<\/a> are a CIA project. This isn’t about that. I don’t want this to become all Juan Cole-bashing all the time, but I just read something so horrible that I needed to blog it.<\/p>\n It wasn’t on Cole’s site – or rather, only part of it was.<\/p>\n Cole blogged <\/a>the murder of U.S. Navy officer Kylan Jones-Hoffman in Iraq.Cole dismisses the murder with this comment:<\/p>\n The assassin said that he felt that Jones-Huffman “looked Jewish.” The fruits of hatred sowed in the Middle East by aggressive and expansionist Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza against the Palestinians and in south Lebanon against Shiites continue to be harvested by Americans.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And then adds this:<\/p>\n (Some readers have written to say that the Iraqi assassin’s association of all Jews with the misdeeds of the rightwing hawks in the Occupied Territories is outrageous. I, of course, entirely agree. It is the essence of bigotry to blame all members of a group for the actions of a few.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nice rhetorical dance; say it and then disavow responsibility. But that’s not what’s horrible.<\/b> I sadly have just come to kinda expect this kind of thing from Cole.<\/p>\n It gets much worse.<\/p>\n