Posted on 04/26/2018 10:22:17 AM PDT by WisconsinRep
Natalie Portmans statement is a model of liberal Zionist dissent. It focuses its fire on Israels elected leadership, while evincing love for its people; insists that one need not choose between the Jewish value of empathy for the marginalized, and support for the Jewish state; and frames her criticism of Israeli policy as a defense of Israels own best interests all while explicitly disavowing the BDS movement.
For decades, progressive Jews have been assured that such sentiments are kosher. The notion that there is a fundamental distinction between the righteousness of Israeli policy and Israels right to exist as a Jewish state has enabled countless American Jews to reconcile their liberal values with unconditional support for the latter premise. Radicals might have insisted that illiberalism and state Zionism were inextricable; that the maintenance of a majority-Jewish nation in a predominantly Muslim region would inevitably require discriminatory policies. But liberal Jews knew better; they could support both the Israelis and Palestinians one day, there would be two states for two peoples, Zionism and democracy, from the river to the sea.
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Did you condemn Obama when he was President of the United States?
At least 40-45% of Jewish voters in Israel voted against the current coalition government.
Natalie Portman rabidly supports the murder of innocent little preborn babies.
Not polite to Point!
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