The head of the David Project writes in the JTA that the real danger of all the delegitimation isn’t the leftwing– no, it’s the fact that the left is driving the discourse, driving the pendulum, and thereby delegitimating the Israel lobby in the mainstream. Fascinating. David Bernstein:
The real danger is that the present campus environment in the United States may adversely affect the future of U.S. support for Israel. Americans may never become Israel haters, as we see in parts of Europe — hostility has been mainstreamed there, potentially affecting diplomatic and economic ties with Israel, and London has been dubbed the “Mecca of de-legitimization” by the Israeli think tank Re’ut — but they may cease to be Israel lovers.
Last fall, the student Democrats at a prominent university wrote to the pro-Israel student leadership of the university that they had adopted “a policy of non-endorsement on Israel-Palestine issues.” The student Democrats explained that there was too much division in their own ranks to continue to co-sponsor pro-Israel student activities.
Such a letter may not make your blood boil like an apartheid wall, but it is far more ominous.
