Deborah Lipstadt and David Ellenson

Echoes of McCarthyism in Smear Campaign Against New Israel Fund Backers

Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin is a name that is infamous in American history. The senator hurled scurrilous innuendos and attacked the character of those he opposed. He routinely labelled them as “Communists” in an attempt to squelch all political views at odds with his own. In the spring of 1954, when his power was…