Breaking the Silence is the Israeli veterans' group that took me to Hebron two years ago. Lately they took a group of British diplomats in an armoured car. The settlers attacked the car. I'm not entirely sure why this is news but I'm glad it is. These conditions have existed for many years. The settlers attack a lot of folks who come to check them out. They threw rocks at the group I was with. Still it is good that the BBC is covering the mess. Maybe even people in the States will learn about it.
To understand how primitive the U.S. is on the subject, consider the Washington Jewish Week, which has lately published an article about the critique of Arabic instruction at Harvard that appeared in The Wash. Post a few weeks back. The original article, by eminence grise Joel Pollak, was intended to stir up a David Project like mess at Harvard, but has failed. Because it was a weak argument, as even the Washington Jewish Week concedes–"I think maybe Joel read a little bit too much into it," says a classmate here.
But to my point. The Washington Jewish Week attempts to blacken Arab authors of texts used in Pollak's course as anti-Israel by quoting statements the authors made against the occupation:
…[Kristen] Brustad claimed that Israel had
violated international law with its "brutal, dehumanizing military
occupation and confiscation of Palestinian land, home demolition and
agricultural stranglehold."
by "illegally occupying through military force land that belongs to
others, the Israeli settlers and the politicians who support them are
the ones that have no peace in their vocabulary."
Let's be clear about this. The Washington Jewish Week is defending the occupation and the colonization program. Publications like this are the heart of the organized Jewish community. Thus the Zionist project destroys the American Jewish moral compass, compelling Jews here to be cheerleaders to apartheid. Some day they will teach all this in Jewish texts.
