Prominent gentiles must get over their hangups and start criticizing Israel
By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, April 3, 2009
This morning I got a between-the-eyes email from a Jewish friend:
This is a trend that this site has tracked: Jews who are so upset by Israel that they have slipped their communal bonds.
They've done it because Jewish communal life is corrupted by the pro-Israel commandment. The example of Tikkun Magazine offering space to the American Jewish Committee to justify the Gaza slaughter is the best example I can think of right now: a leftwing organization, offering shelter to madness. During Gaza a few Jewish orgs did speak out against the horror: J Street, Brit Tzedek, Americans for Peace Now, and the Israel Policy Forum. Though even their statements were mild. And they came under terrific pressure for issuing them.
"Forget about the Jews. The overwhelming non-Jewish American majority could halt the genocide of Palestinians." That is the conclusion of the anti-Zionist physicist George Salzman. "Until now I have been far too focused on arguing with... Jews, simply as a result of my own ethnic and professional background. I need to break out of that trap. It is up to us all, the vast majority of whom are non-Jewish, to struggle together for the future of humanity. " I think Anna Baltzer reached this understanding a long time ago.
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This morning I got a between-the-eyes email from a Jewish friend:
I in many respects finally "exited" from what was a lifelong communal Jewish space a number of years ago. It was liberating. It was Lebanon 2006 that finally did it.
This is a trend that this site has tracked: Jews who are so upset by Israel that they have slipped their communal bonds.
They've done it because Jewish communal life is corrupted by the pro-Israel commandment. The example of Tikkun Magazine offering space to the American Jewish Committee to justify the Gaza slaughter is the best example I can think of right now: a leftwing organization, offering shelter to madness. During Gaza a few Jewish orgs did speak out against the horror: J Street, Brit Tzedek, Americans for Peace Now, and the Israel Policy Forum. Though even their statements were mild. And they came under terrific pressure for issuing them.
"Forget about the Jews. The overwhelming non-Jewish American majority could halt the genocide of Palestinians." That is the conclusion of the anti-Zionist physicist George Salzman. "Until now I have been far too focused on arguing with... Jews, simply as a result of my own ethnic and professional background. I need to break out of that trap. It is up to us all, the vast majority of whom are non-Jewish, to struggle together for the future of humanity. " I think Anna Baltzer reached this understanding a long time ago.
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