Prashad quote This quote still has way too much WP WEIGHT What Prashad is actually addressing here and in other writings is his opposition to Hindu nationalists in India and their developing relationship to Jewish Lobby groups as well as to the Likud Prashad s discussion is not scholarly it is purely polemical and he is attempting to minimize the influence of the lobby in order to undercut the Hindu right wing s alliance with them and with at the time Sharon Elsewhere Prashad an intellectual leader of the Communist Party of India Marxist has argued that the Jewish Lobby ca nt be powerful because to think so does not sit well for a Marxist framework Hence Prashad has been arguing that the strength of Sharonism is what s key in US support for Israel not the JL Given the polemical character of Prahshad s piece and it s peripheral relationship to the actual history of the JL and the fact that his quote is lifted out of context from what he is actually discussing polemicizing presenting the CPI M line and regardless of what one makes of his argument this is way too weighty