The new issue of Washington Jewish Week:

The Anti-Defamation League is welcoming MoveOn.org Political Action’s removal of anti-Semitic messages from the ActionForum portion of its Web site.  ADL national director Abraham Foxman had written MoveOn.org Political Action executive director Eli Pariser on Thursday of last week after receiving complaints that such comments as “media owning Jewish pigs,” “Jew Lieberman” referring to Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), “Zionazis” and “why are the Jews so Jew-y?” had been posted to the site.”  Foxman noted that while the site is an open forum “intended to foster the free flow of ideas,” MoveOn should “exercise your own First Amendment rights and issue a statement making it clear that your organization finds such messages abhorrent.”  Pariser responded last weekend with a statement on the group’s Web site, saying that “a few of the thousands of comments that are posted every week” were “abhorrent” and that they were removed “as soon as they came to our attention.”   The comments “identified were not, in fact, made by MoveOn members,” he said, noting the nonprofit was “working to discern whether they were made as a part of a right-wing campaign to target the organization.”

Moveon is still “working to discern” who is to blame for the anti-Semitic foul-up.  Here at Extreme Mortman, we’re eager for the investigation to be complete.  We know these things can take a while.  Perhaps in the interim they can serve up one name of a right winger to blame?