Yesterday we picked up Allison Kaplan Sommer’s report for Haaretz on a debate in Israel featuring Peter Beinart and Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, among others.
Foxman did attack Beinart in a gentle and backhanded way, stating “My love and support for Israel is unconditional, it does not depend on the Israeli acceptance of my ideas. My Zionism is not in crisis because my Zionism is not conditioned on an embrace of an idealized view of what I’d like Israel to be.”
David Bromwich writes:
Imagine the head of an American civil rights organization whose job is to expose incidents of prejudice, discrimination, and flagrant abuse of power against the weak, saying at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott: “My love of my home town of Montgomery, Alabama is not conditioned on an embrace of an idealized view of what I’d like Montgomery to be.”
But Israel is more than a hometown. It is a manifestation of an ideology. A better analogy would be to the defenders of communism in the face of the horrors of Stalin & Mao. “My love and support for the Soviet Union is unconditional, it does not depend on the the Kremlin’s acceptance of my ideas. My Communism is not in crisis because my Communism is not conditioned on an embrace of an idealized view of what I’d like the Soviet Union to be.”
following up on bromwich’s statement –
or back in the nazi era, a german saying “My love of my homeland is not conditioned on an embrace of an idealized view of what I’d like Germany to be.”
the zionist lie is exposed and there is no way to use wordgames to re-cloak it
I think guys like Foxman love the country Israel has become – for them its their tough guy, leather jacket wearing, motorcycle riding, non filtered cigarette smoking alter ego. I think they get off on Jews treating others poorly, it makes them feel powerful, even if indirectly.
Of course, and as Seafoid will note I’m sure, in reality, the alter ego lives with his mother and rents his motorcycle.
Oh Abe , Mr. it wasn’t a genocide, oh wait it was a genocide but the U.S. Congress shouldn’t recognize it as such Foxman. In the dictionary, for the definition of coward, it says “see Abe Foxman.”