Stephen Steinlight was the former head of National Affairs for

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Stephen Steinlight was the former head of National Affairs for the largest most powerful Jewish organization in America, The American Jewish Committee.

In a Jewish magazine published in 2001 titled The Jewish Stake in America Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy (Washington DC: Center Immigration Studies, October) he is quoted saying,
>"I'll confess it at least, like thousands of other typical Jewish kids of my generation I was reared as a Jewish nationalist, even quasi separatist... every summer for two months for 10 formative years during my childhood and adolescence I attended Jewish summer camp. There each morning I saluted a foreign flash dressed in a uniform reflecting its colors, sang a foreign national anthem, learned a foreign language, learned foreign folk songs and dance and was taught that Israel was the true homeland. I was taught the superiority of my people to the gentiles who had oppressed us. We were taught to view non-Jews as untrustworthy outsiders. People from whom sudden gusts of hatred might be anticipated and people less sensitive, intelligent and moral than ourselves. We were also taught the lesson of our dark history is that we could rely on no one.”

But the Anti defamation League says to question ‘dual loyalty’ is anti-Semitism... so which is it? Many Jewish kids are brought up not with a dual loyalty but undivided loyalty to the Jewish people and to Israel, or that’s just something non Jews say because we hate them?