We’re following the war between Israelis over the right to dissent from misguided state policies. (Why, it may even portend a war inside Israel over the occupation.) The focus of this war has been the New Israel Fund, which has funded human-rights organizations that contributed to the Goldstone report on the Gaza war and which has supported the demonstrations against house evictions in East Jerusalem. Naomi Chazan, a former speaker of the Knesset, is the head of the New Israel Fund. Haaretz:
Yesterday Chazan received an e-mail from Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief David Horovitz, informing her the newspaper would cease publishing her column.
Chazan had provided the daily with one of its few leftist voices in recent years. Horovitz declined to respond to questions from Haaretz last night.
