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Naomi Chazan was deputy speaker of the Knesset and the dean of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Given her credentials, one would have thought that she would have a good grasp of politics and law. But in a recent article published in The Forward, she stated that “Israel’s settlement enterprise...violate[s] international law” because “colonizing occupied land is illegal [based on] the Geneva Conventions,” notwithstanding the contrary opinion expressed in “the contortions of a few right-wing legal scholars.” Well, I am no legal scholar but I’d rather be on the side of those...

Naomi Chazan has ended a tumultuous term as president of New Israel Fund (NIF), which leads the ultra-leftist camp in Israel through the use of neo-Marxist tactics and public advocacy "rights groups," and the promotion of "politically correct" Newspeak. The Fund has disbursed well over $200 million in its 23 years of existence. In her farewell speech at the New Israel Fund's 2012 Guardian of Democracy Dinner in San Francisco last week, Chazan used Newspeak to describe the current state of events in Israel as a "tug-of-war" between the "neo-nationalist" camp in Israel and the "democratic revival" of "civil society."...