“Author Stockman has asked Birthright veterans to get in touch with her to tell her their stories about the trip. ”
Virtually all of them have completely demolished the claims made about Birthright by INN.
“Moreover, the mere possibility of an anti-Semitic Zionist illustrates that the state isn’t a pastoral sanctuary”
Eyeroll. How many red herring arguments can you made? Zionism never posited that Israel would be a “pastoral sanctuary.” The “mere possible of an anti-semitic Zionist” no more undermines the foundation of Zionism than David Duke’s support for the Palestinians undermines the Palestinian cause.
I bet you’ll feel that way when some BDS activist does an interview like this and gets upset when someone like Chotiner asks them why they support terrorism.
Actually, I think it’s more accurate to say that Israelis have been coddling ill-intentioned people like Isaac Chotiner’s for too long.
Palestinians should drop their nationalist aspirations.
“Oh, “Hophmi”, I’m glad you dropped by. Somebody was asking just the other day how to be a parody of a parody.”
I’m used to your silly insults, Mooser, but I’m surprised to see you describe Phil Weiss as a parody.
“But you Zionists won’t even though you should.”
Well, Eljay, although antisemitism is ticking upwards, it has experienced a precipitous decline since 1948. So I’m not following you on this one. Seems like you want to blame the victims here.
What is says to me is that when young Muslim representatives make antisemitic comments, progressives make heroes out of them, but if a young Jewish representative says something offensive, no one will bother to “call him in” or try to educate him. Religious Muslims are children to be endlessly celebrated and apologized for; religious Jews are evil and don’t deserve to sit in government. Quite consistent with how people at Mondoweiss think, actually, given how many how posted excerpts from Israel Shahak about how bad religious Judaism is; I mean, YoniFalic, who was banned from Twitter for antisemitic posting, is free to post here.
One day, Phil, you’ll reflect on how you helped encourage antisemitism, which is rising all over the world. Today, a new poll in France came out indicating that 1 in 5 French Jewish university students have been the victim of a violent antisemitic attack. https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/9-in-10-french-jewish-students-report-suffering-campus-anti-semitism-poll-finds
If Kalman Yeger can’t be on an immigration committee because he doesn’t believe that Palestine exists, Ilhan Omar should not be on the House Foreign Affairs committee if she believes that Jews can’t support a strong US-Israel relationship without being dually loyal.
Congrats on being even more dishonest than Frontpage Mag.
BDS as a tool of white supremacy. This antisemitic act will result in a justifiable loss in giving, which will reduce the ability of disadvantaged students to attend Pitzer. And now we have the specter of white radical BDSers like Phil making nasty remarks about one of the country’s strongest African-American college Presidents in support of the overwhelmingly white faculty.