Every once in a while I get on my high horse, oh I’d say only three times a day, and right now is one of those times. Here is the tragedy of American Jews. It’s all you need to know.The 92d Street Y is hosting the mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, who has overseen an operation of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian neighborhoods, to speak in New York; and who is his interlocutor– Bret Stephens, the neoconservative at the Wall Street Journal.
It fills me with despair. This is the discourse? Oh my god. This is why this website is so vital, because all god’s chillun got wings, including Palestinian and non-Zionist Jews. But only the rightwingers are allowed inside the Jewish tabernacle these days. I love the Jews, they’re mine, they’re my root; but their leadership is today deeply deeply deluded, by a messianism as profound and wrong-track as the Shabbatai Zevi. Remember this is the same 92d Street Y that lately disinvited Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Gaza doctor whose three daughters were slaughtered by the Israelis, after the Jewish author who was to appear on stage with him and thereby give him hecksher (kosher him) dropped out of the event. Oh the blindness, oh the selfishness.
Thanks to Ali Gharib, who tweeted sarcastically: “I expect Bret Stephens to really grill Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat at 92Y.”
