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McCarthyism from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who acted out morbid fear of aliens, especially Communists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 409] See : Xenophobia How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From the period of the publication of An American Dilemma (1944) to the time of the writing of the Autobiography (1958-59), the left and progressives in the United States were decimated by McCarthyite red-baiting and disunified in the face of revelations of Stalinist violence. In an editorial in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Daniel Levy, a former policy adviser for Prime Minister Ehud Barak, deplored such "bullying tactics" and "the McCarthyite policing of academics" as "deeply un-Jewish. The result was that, for too long, Chalabi was allowed to conduct a McCarthyite purge of any public official he pleased, including hundreds of lower-level officials whose only sin was to adhere to a Saddam-era requirement to join the only party in town. |
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