 This included Weiss' claim that "the Israel lobby ... reflected a contract the American establishment had made with Jews to drive the economy in the 1970s", which Bernstein likened to a belief in an "Elders of Zion type group".According to Elliot Kaufman, the Vice President of Cardinal for Israel, a Stanford University group, writing in "The Stanford Review", "Mondoweiss" "often publishes astonishingly anti-Semitic material, using classic anti-Semitic imagery such as depicting Jews as spiders, cockroaches, or octopuses with tentacles controlling others, and Holocaust inversion.Its hatred of Israel is as deep as it is vicious."