Posted on 01/31/2016 8:16:36 AM PST by Nachum
In blaming Israeli policy for the fact that on many U.S. campuses, the classmates of Jewish students “shun them for identifying with Israel at all,†perhaps American Jewish leaders are overlooking the failures at home, particularly among liberal progressive diaspora Jewish leaders. Many Jewish students are stuck entirely in an American bubble, with no understanding of the centrality of Jewish self-determination (i.e., Zionism) to our survival as a people. So how can they even begin to understand Israel, let alone give us advice?
Indeed.For two decades, too many American Jews have ignored or downplayed the gratuitous post-colonial Israel-bashing from the supposedly liberal bastions such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and which are echoed in the mainstream media. When Israeli soldiers are repeatedly and falsely accused of being child murderers and war criminals, where is the outrage from the mainstream American Jewish establishment? A couple of years ago, the federations finally established a fund to fight boycotts, but this group is also largely invisible and very timid.
Instead, fringe Israeli voices that polarize and demonize our society under the façade of human rights, democracy and peace are given legitimacy and resources in America, and the Jewish leadership is silent or in some cases complicit. Much of the BDS war — and make no mistake, the goal is the elimination of Israel — involves bogus peace NGOs that received their initial funds and public relations boost via U.S.-based Jewish groups who thought they knew better than the Israeli public. Such groups include the Coalition of Women for Peace, the Israel Committee Against House Demolitions, Breaking the Silence, Jewish Voice for Peace, and many others.
And now, when the Israeli public finally demands an effective response to the NGOs that lead to this demonization, the American Jewish leadership condemns Israel, repeating liberal pieties about free speech, but without addressing the real issues. In all of the criticisms of the proposed new NGO funding transparency laws, I have yet to see any serious understanding of the threat or alternative strategies. On this, as on so many issues, criticizing Israel from a distance is far too easy.
When crying out for an Israeli peace plan, “any plan,†your interlocutor makes it seem so simple. Like most Israelis, I also hope for a peace plan, but not any plan, and certainly not one that will bring us yet another disaster when it fails. The reality that I see not far from the windows in my Jerusalem home includes Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Assad, Iran and others. Our only “peace partners,†led by Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah group, are corrupt and stuck in the rejectionist dead-end of 1948. So no, “any plan†that helps Israel’s PR among liberal students, but makes our security situation even worse, is not better than the status quo.
On this and many other issues, I understand why American Jewish leaders want us in Israel to take risks, and probably think that this is for our own good. But we do not see many American Jewish leaders taking many risks in terms of criticizing President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry when they put all of the blame and responsibility on Israel, and patronizingly give the Palestinians a free pass. And where are your tough decisions to exclude BDS groups and Israel bashers from the big “Jewish tent?â€
So it is not only “that Israel’s leadership is moving in a direction at odds with the next generation of Americans,†but that America’s liberal Jewish leadership is moving in a direction at odds with Israel and our realities.
What is there beef about wine, in the photo.
When liberalism becomes tyranny here, the libs will begin a severe persecution of Jews and Christians.
Hey! Don't look at me. I didn't say it. God did.
And these cute little Jewish American Princesses will be the very first target of the ISIS “Freedom Fighters”. Who will their cries for help go to?
Sorry, my hearing aid batteries went kaput.
I think some lib fems, Jewish and non-Jewish, have very strong rape fantasies involving gangs of brown men.
The thought just feels so RIGHT to them!
But I predict they might not enjoy it so much in reality.
lambs to the slaughter
JINOs
I have a very good friend from college (we are both in our 60s). We were talking not long ago and she (Jew) was lamenting how stupid and unconcerned the younger generation of Jews are in this country. She admitted astonishment at just how stupid they are.
I was in HS at the time of the 67 war, but I recall it. We were both in college when the Yom Kippur war took place and well aware of what it meant.
When history is lost, people and nations die.
Both he and the people he criticizes are thoroughly secular. When we hear arguments for Israel based on A-mighty G-d rather than secularism we will be be getting somewhere.
They're against wine from the so-called "occupied territories" (Judaea and Samaria, the Biblical Jewish heartland).
Really? You can’t spell out Almighty?
morons
These imbeciles have drunk so deeply of the libtard Koolaid that their brains are growing out of their anus. In no way do they represent authentic Judaism. I had to laugh at the little moron on the right proudly declaring she was serving a non-kosher wine at HER seder. If I witnessed her “seder” I’d probably do myself an injury laughing, as it’s most likely 99% PC crap and 1% what it’s supposed to be.
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