Last week we picked up Jacob Berkman’s report that the Jewish leadership’s inflexible support of the flotilla raid risks alienating the Jewish street, which is "conflicted" about the raid. Yes, because the left now has profound misgivings. This is from a conservative site, Human Events, smart reporting by Michelle Oddis, saying that Jewish celebs are not showing up at the pro-Israel rallies:
Politically active Jewish celebrities have remained silent regarding Israel’s right to defend itself after the recent raid on a pro-Palestinian aid flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip.“Unfortunately,” said [screenwriter Andrew] Klavan, “I think there are a lot of Jews who don’t realize that the left has left the building.”
“I’m hearing from Jewish friends in show business ‘Gee I went to my theater group’ or ‘a movie set and I heard this horrible anti-Israel stuff, what’s going on?’ and they don’t quite get yet that the political left has left Israel behind.”
The real challenge here is again to MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Your viewers/readers want criticism of Israel. Will you sound that demand in the community? (Or will you just let this site continue to grow..)
