Edited sentence: , where Stanley I.In an essay, “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,” by Alvin H.Kutler noted that the AJC itself had opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine until 1946.Richard Cohen remarked that the essay "has given license to the most intolerant and narrow-minded of Israel's defenders so that, as the AJC concedes in my case, any veering from orthodoxy is met with censure or, from someone like Reinharz, the most powerful of all post-Holocaust condemnations -- anti-Semite -- is diluted beyond recognition".Rosenfeld, published on its web site, the AJC attacked Jewish critics of Israel by name, particularly the editors and contributors to "Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (Grove Press), a 2003 collection of essays edited by Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon.The Forward called the essay "a shocking tissue of slander" whose intent was to "turn Jews against liberalism and silence critics".The Guardian ,.The essay accused them of  supporting a rise in anti-Semitism, and of participating in an "onslaught against Zionism and the Jewish State".The essay was also criticized by rabbi Michael Lerner  and in op-eds in.and The Boston Globe