A growing chorus in the American Jewish community uses the word “apartheid” to describe Israel’s rule over Palestinians. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who helped save his Texas congregation from a gunman Saturday, is said to be among those who’ve made the charge. And the Forward suggests that’s why his contract was not renewed last year at Congregation Beth Israel.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, the opinion editor of the Forward, issues extraordinary claims: 97 percent of Jews are Zionists, anti-Zionists in the Jewish community are as anomalous as Trump supporters who are black; she is the “number one publisher of Palestinian voices in America”; and intellectuals who cheered demonstrators at a pro-Israel panel bear responsibility for the spike in anti-semitism and even synagogue murders.
Batya Ungar-Sargon of the Forward is attacking our website on twitter, implying we’re anti-Semitic. But Batya once asked Phil Weiss to write for the Forward. He revisits the meeting she sought with him in 2017.
When Peter Beinart said that Republicans like Israel because it’s an “ethnic democracy,” ADL Deputy Director Ken Jacobson pounced, saying that he was delegitimizing Israel as a “racist state,” and fostering the victimization of Jews. Beinart responded that Israel isn’t racist. Jonathan Ofir urges him to acknowledge the reality of what Israel has become.
When Batya Ungar-Sargon of the Forward landed on Rep. Ilhan Omar for an alleged anti-Semitic “trope” in calling out the Israel lobby’s use of money to influence politicians, she joined the army of slanderers ready to assign any criticism of Israel to one alleged anti-Semitic prejudice or another.
In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, leading Orthodox Jewish rabbis would not recognize that the Conservative synagogue was indeed a synagogue. This is because they fear legitimizing other forms of Judaism that may endanger their political-Zionist-state monopoly in Israel. Their intolerance should be a wake up call to liberal Zionists, to recognize the dangers of mixing religion and state, a core principle for Israel.
Last week, Isaac Herzog, the outgoing Labor leader and newly elected head of the Jewish…