Moshe Yaroni has an attack on the "bunker mentality" of American Zionists who are helping Israel to commit suicide, in Zeek, a journal of ideas that is "presented by [the Jewish] Forward". Yaroni makes these wise observations:
Most Jews are liberal. They are uncomfortable with the Jewish state holding millions of Palestinian Arabs under occupation, without giving them the rights of citizenship. They are uncomfortable with the Jewish state holding a million and a half more under siege. They are uncomfortable with the devastation Israel wreaked on that same population a year and a half ago. They are uncomfortable with the Jewish state saying it is helpless to stop settlement expansion. They are uncomfortable with valuing East Jerusalem (aside from the Western Wall area) over peace.
Most Jews in the West have not personally experienced anti-Semitism.
Oh but Moshe Yaroni also writes this:
Author’s Note: This will be my last article for Zeek Magazine. I want to thank the many readers out there who have been following my articles every week. I hope you will continue to follow my work at my blog, Realistic Peace In Israel-Palestine.
And here is Richard Silverstein saying that Zeek has purged leftleaners and gave a platform to John Hagee, the Christian Zionist and nut:
The paper’s op-ed editor, the right-leaning Daniel Treiman commissioned this [Hagee] piece and he should have his license to practice journalism suspended. Did he do any fact-checking before publishing this? Or did he feel his author was of such impeccable reputation that such rudimentary editorial review was unnecessary?
Furthermore, the Forward deleted comments posted by Rachel Tabachnick and Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action, Jewish opponents of Hagee, in the thread for this article. Their contributions offered Hagee quotations like the ones above [antisemitic/weird stuff Hagee has said] to rebut the claims he made. I’m assuming that Treiman as op-ed editor made the decision to excise these perfectly reasonable comments. Did he or did someone higher in the food chain? If so, why?
Until recently, Rachel Tabachnick contributed articles twice a month to Zeek, a progressive Jewish publication which shares a website with The Forward, about Hagee and Christian Zionism. Her work on this subject has been suspended by Zeek’s editor, Jo Ellen Kaiser. No one can now write for Zeek about either matter.
Possibly another data point: JJ Goldberg, in the Forward/Haaretz, describing England as a country "where left-wing anti-Zionism is increasingly indistinguishable from old-fashioned Jew-hatred."
UPDATE: Earlier version of this post had "Forward" in the headline and said that Zeek is a publication of the Forward. It’s "presented by the Jewish daily Forward." My bad– Phil Weiss.
