Daniel Gordis in the Jerusalem Post last week:
DOMESTICALLY, TOO, we are doing ourselves enormous harm. Something ugly and dangerous is bubbling to the surface of society, endangering the very democracy and decency that have rightly been the very source of our pride for decades. There is a move for an investigation of the funding of left-wing groups…
Rabbis urge Jews not to sell or rent property to Arabs, effectively making rabid racism a rabbinically-sanctioned position, and rabbis’ wives follow suit, warning parents to distance their children from Arabs. (Just imagine a rabbi in the US saying that same thing about African-Americans!)
Recent polls show that one-third of Jewish Israelis oppose giving equal civil rights to Israeli Arabs, and in the modern religious community the rate is double.
Gordis writing in the New York Times this morning, “A Friendship of Values, not Convenience”:
But the threat of chaos, and even Islamist rule, might have a silver lining. It is all the more obvious that there is only one country in the region that has the same values as America: Israel. If America reacts to recent events by increasing its support for those who share its values, it could reassure a suddenly surrounded Israe..
It’s astonishing that this is his second op-ed in the Times in the space of months. A man who believes the settlements may be “wise.” A Zionist who left America for Israel, an anti-integrationist. Where is Steve Walt? Where is Rebecca Vilkomerson?
