One such comment was that "The New York Times" "really ought to change its name to "Holocaust Update"". Sobran claimed that Buckley told him to "stop antagonizing the Zionist crowd" and Buckley accused him of libel and moral incapacitation. Sobran also complained of "a more or less official national obsession with a tiny, faraway socialist ethnocracy", meaning Israel. In his syndicated column for "The Wanderer" in August 1993, Sobran had defended Pat Buchanan against charges of antisemitism and concluded that comparisons of anti-Zionism to antisemitism is a non sequitur.