Anything Really New With JVP, IfNotNow, Yachad, Etc.?

I started to write this before I saw Zehava's FB post on the theme of betrayal from within the Jewish family so:

When segments of my own people willingly shun their own country, their history and their legacy, when they repudiate their people’s rights and their heritage, and when they negate their own nation’s plight and align themselves with those who butcher us, it crosses all lines and hurts like no other hurt.
It is the vilest perfidy. It not only pierces the heart, it slashes it into fragments and rips your gut.

Peter Beinart, a self-confessed "a fan of IfNotNow" has a new one up on the theme of millenials and their protest of

American Jewish complicity in Palestinian repression

But this perverted phenomenon is not new.  What Jews do not quite realize, I think, is that this type of behavior is very much unique to Jews.

Different peoples have ideological, political and cultural arguments and differences as to what policies should be promoted by the governments of the day and how and when and to what extent.  But to utterly deny one's national identity?  

You want to assimilate?  Fine.

You do not want to be a Zionist?  Okay.

But why take front and center stage and demonstarte your animosity, your rejection of identity, your refusal to take part in this great process and returning Jews to their homeland and all that that entails, no less than any other country.

Herzl was opposed.  The Reform movement rejected Zion. The Aguda and Admorim fought Zionism.

The Balfour Declaration was almost sabotaged from within the cabinet by Montagu and cousins.

In America, 299 Rabbis signed a letter in 1919 trying the prevent President Wilson from supporting the Balfour Declaration.

There followed Brit Shalom and Ihud during the Mandate Palestine years.

The American Council for Judaism.

In going over an article on Richard Storrs' later anti-Zionism, I came across the name of a Rabbi Mattuck.

Seems he headed the anti-Zionst Jewish Fellowship (Chap. 4 in this book) in England in the mid-1940s, a Reform Rabbi from New York.  

And there was a Daniel Lipson who is termed the most vociferous and outspoken Jewish anti-Zionist in parliament (see page 707 in this book and more in this book).

Here's a succinct summary of what was going on in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century:

There was Breirah after 1967.

But how bad are today's versions of anti-Zionists from within?

Here are some remarks from Liz Rose (an alias), a teacher from Chicago, who attended the JVP bash, i.e., National Member Meeting, this year

I was making connections in my own life to an increased awareness of “the wreck of Zionism.” I have felt so much shame in having been a Zionist. When I first joined JVP years ago, I went to meetings and actions and feigned a false comfort in pretending that I had always been an anti-Zionist against the occupation. Other Jews seemed so much more comfortable than me talking about Palestine. Now, with language, I’m able to understand that I was simply at the beginning of the process of undoing my Zionism. At the time, I even faked it, yelling, “Free Palestine!” with others as we protested. My face would get red and hot as I mouthed the words “Palestine” around others, as though I had committed some sort of transgression.

...When I stayed with Palestinians in Jenin years ago, I remember looking out the window of my host’s home. Palestinian homes dotted the landscape with giant olive trees. The apartheid wall was out of vision. I could see, for the first time, finally, in the dusky twilight, the land of Palestine as it was meant to be for Palestinians. This is not Israel, I thought. Israel has colonized this indigenous land. It’s all Palestine. The West Bank, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, all of it, I thought. This understanding has come in stages, in an undoing of the Zionist layers of propaganda that were deep in my unconscious...

...what opened inside of me was a permission to stop shaming myself for having believed the mythology of Israel and to acknowledge the importance of my own narrative as I work to untangle my own layers of denial– alongside Palestinians’ stories–that I haven’t fully given myself before. Being part of the oppressing group, I have noticed wanting to silence my embarrassment and shame at having been a Zionist–and my subsequent, privileged epiphany that Israel is actually all Palestine–to move my voice out of the way to make room for the oppressed voices...I was intrigued when I saw Osato’s “Self-Loving Anti-Zionist” as one of them. Even then, though, I felt a twinge of shame as I texted my husband, joking, “Maybe I’d go if it was called ‘Self-Loathing Anti-Zionist.’”

She has provided additional testimony about herself which provides insight into the workings of her psyche:

I learned that most of what I had learned growing up, what had been taught to me, was propaganda. I wasn’t special for loving Jerusalem so much; I had simply bought into what others had fed me–remarkably convincing propaganda backed by lobbyists and money to colonize and “Judaize” Palestine.

I’m not writing this to claim victim space. I know that I am not alone as a Jew who has the epiphany of Palestine–the Jew who realizes, slowly and painfully, that everything I had been taught about the mythology that is Israel needed to be deconstructed and rebuilt, that friendships would need to be lost and new ones found, that entering the “other side”–the side I was taught was the “dark side”–actually meant to enter into a commitment to justice and empathy.

And here is a letter from a good friend that contains some important insights:

One would do well to juxtapose Gil Troy’s Pollyannaish “What can your country do for you?” (Center Field, April 5), his thoughts on “how Israelis can bridge the gap with the Diaspora,” and Hal Ostrow’s cri de couer “Union for Reform Judaism practices intolerance in pursuit of social justice” (Comment & Opinion, April 5).
As Ostrow makes abundantly clear, liberal Judaism is willfully detaching itself both practically and emotionally from Israel’s needs and reality in order to maintain Democratic/progressive/ liberal bona fides that might keep an evaporating congregation from falling off the roster entirely. To the extent that this works at all, it does not work as a factor in fostering or maintaining a Diaspora commitment to Israel.
If anything, the opposite is true: The near-term survival of Reform Judaism and its dying ability to attract or maintain members requires it to move ever deeper into an anti-Zionist posture.
Troy’s outdated stereotype of the “aliya guilt trip,” whereby heavily-accented, pot-bellied Israeli war veterans insult Diaspora Jews, reveals the extent to which he is detached from reality.
The fact is no one, not even the start-up nation, can build a bridge when the other shore keeps receding.
Liberal Jews have made it abundantly clear where their values and priorities lie – and these are not under the wedding canopy, in the synagogue pew or in the maternity ward, and certainly not in anything to do with Israel, Zionism or Jewish continuity.
Thank God there is an Israel and that over half the world’s Jews live in this Jewish state. The Diaspora is self-liquidating and there isn’t a damned thing Israel can do about it.
Yes, there is a Jewish future, but only here. That’s why we exist.
J.J. GROSSJerusalem

All those who opposed Zionism as the Yishuv was flourishing and as the state of Israel developed and continued to fulfill the genuine process of returning to and returning Jews to the Land of Israel either became Zionists eventually, assimilated and disappeared or were murdered victims of anti-Semitism left behind in the lands of the Exile.

It is so obvious that Zionism is has been proven successful, true and correct as a solution for the classic "Jewish Question" and that the Arab behavior and character is so undeserving of denying the Jews our rightful place in this world. But, Jews are never satisfied.

I would also suggest that without Israel, these Jews have no identity as they have little to fill their Jewishness (and what they have they twist its real meaning or make things up) and furthermore, without Israel they have no real security.

Such a psychotic existence.

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Another take. ^

Arab Propaganda in the "Dozens"

Let's just pick on two false claims in this story:

Turmus Aya's Palestinians threatened by settlement plan

Around 4000 Palestinians live in fear over recent encroachment from Israeli settlements.

1.  The fertile area is known as "Emek Shilo" - Shilo Valley - and is home to dozens of Palestinian villages and towns. 

"Dozens"?

Turmos Aya

is the only village in the valley:

(Added)

And the homes are luxurious.


To be generous, nearby but not in the valley which is less than a mile long and less than half-mile wide, are Mughayir and Jaloud. Two families live in a small plot know as Hirbet Sara.

In the same area are Shiloh, Shvut Rachel, Achiyah, Keida, Adei-Ad, Yishuv HaDa'at and Geulat Tzion/Amona.

Hebrew map of same area:

2.  "The settlers and the poor economic situation here are the reason why Turmus Aya is empty," said Rabie, a Chicago-based Palestinian who hails from the village, where many of the elegant villas appear uninhabited. "People are scared of the settlers and the army."

Turmos-Aya is not empty.  Period.

Its population is at least 4000 and probably more, with "thousands of American citizens", 70 per cent of its residents are US citizens.

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New Construction in Shiloh...With Occupancy

In Shiloh, Illinois, that is.

With occupancy, yes occupancy, in early 2019.

300 unit-plus luxury apartment complex proposed for ShilohBy Mark Schlinkmann St. Louis Post-Dispatch 

SHILOH • A $35 million luxury apartment complex with more than 300 units has been proposed for a 26-acre site along Cross Street and the planned extension of Frank Scott Parkway.  If Shiloh village officials approve a needed rezoning, the developer — Crevo Capital of Edwardsville — hopes to begin construction this fall.  The first units could be ready for occupancy in early 2019.

The apartments, which would be situated near a current lake on the vacant tract, may be built in phases, depending on market demand.  Corey Wenzel, Crevo Capital’s president, said in a release that the complex could be attractive to people who now commute to the area from Missouri.  “Some who work in the Metro East are commuting from St. Louis because they haven’t been able to find the type of environment here that we’ll soon be able to offer,” he said.

Developers also hope to attract tenants associated with nearby Memorial Hospital East and the U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base. The development would include a health club and an indoor-outdoor community lounge with event space that would extend over the lake from the shoreline. The complex would offer units of one, two or three bedrooms, with some larger than 1,500 square feet.

And I once suggested a twinning of our towns and villages here in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) with towns, villages and cities named after the Biblical locations. 

By the way, the Shiloh Township 2017 Consolidated General Election Results from yesterday.

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No Honor at U. of Arkansas

The King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies is an academic and research unit in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, dedicated to the study of the modern Middle East and the geo-cultural area in which Islamic civilization prospered and continues to shape world history. 

It had planned a conference on 'honorcide', the Islamic cultural blight known as 'honor killings':

You'll notice that Phyllis Chesler's name is included.

But she won't be speaking.

I have been informed* that three professors protested her inclusion, a Muslim student had 'promised' there would be Muslim group protests and trouble and that there were shattered windows at the Middle East Studies Center and at the current Director's home. Police came.

Seems the center got cold feet and caved in to the newest edition of fascist storm-troopers.

Phyllis was designated an "Islamophobe". And disinvited.

The death of free speech, free thought, and intellectual diversity at yet another campus, the University of Arkansas Law School?

Oh, BTW, sometimes Phyllis has suffered similarly from Jews.

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UPDATE

Official.  Prof. Chesler is off:

SECOND UPDATE

It was suggested to check online police reports for both the campus police and Fayetteville PD.  

I was informed that on April 8th, at 18:59, the Fayetteville Police Department has a “Code 7” on the street where the head of the Center resides.  Code 7 means “out of service for a meal break.”  However, at that street, there is no place to eat unless one has brought take-out. And why there of all places?

Since January 1, no police calls are registered in this neighbiohood.  Why would cops take a break there?

Could that be linked to a broken-window call at the home of the Center's director?

Seems to be no campus police report on broken windows.

Has there been a hush-up?

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*

Please read this academic analysis which includes observations of the letter that got Prof. Chesler disinvited such as it was

stupefying polemic, its craven reasoning, and its complete disregard for academic integrity. 

and

The flabbiness of the thinking, the mechanical application of polemically defined definitional terms, the dogmatic assertions of closed positions, all reflect a tremendous decline in academic standards. No wonder there’s dissentophobia at King Fahd’s Center: anyone speaking intelligently would undermine the credibility of the credulous.

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Prof. Phyllis has now written about her experience here.

And she mentions Prof. Ted Swedenburg of whom I found this self-admission:

"One of the first days after I had moved to Nablus, in November 1984, I had an experience that has now become a daily routine for Israeli settlers in the West Bank. I was driving downtown, when suddenly, bam! the car shook under the impact of a heavy blow to its side. A Palestinian youth, whom I never saw, had darted out of an alley, hurled a large stone, and rapidly vanished. He only man-aged, luckily, to put a large dent above my gas cap and did not break the wind-shield, the usual goal of hurled stones. I guess he singled out my car as a target from all the others on that busy street because its yellow license plates and my appearance led him to believe I was an Israeli settler. (As the holder of a tourist visa, I had to register my car in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, so its yellow plates stood out amidst the distinctive blue-plated vehicles driven by West Bank Palestinians.) I was so shaken that I was ready to give up fieldwork and go straight home. My immediate thought was that I, of all people, should never have been stoned. After all, unlike those other Westerners one saw in the West Bank-the settlers, tourists, and embassy officials - I was a good foreigner, working in the best interests of the Palestinians. My response was typical of a mentality I shared with other Westerners who worked as teachers, journalists, or researchers in the occupied territories and sympathized with the Palestinians...We "good foreigners" practiced constant rituals of self-purification, designed to guarantee that we-unlike the settlers, tourists, and diplomats-were partof the Palestinian community. We spoke Arabic, dressed modestly (no shorts, low-cut blouses or wild haircuts), avoided tourist haunts, rarely ventured into Israel proper and, whenever possible, purchased Palestinian rather than Israeli products. We were often more obsessive about these latter practices than our Palestinian friends. My point is not that these actions were incorrect, but that in so much as they demonstrated our radical difference from "other" Westerners, they allowed us to disavow our real connections to the centers of power." 

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And a new one here:

SHARIA, ARKANSAS STYLE
A low block by the Razorbacks.

and a protest letter here.


Now, Daily Caller.

By  Eileen F. Toplansky.

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Passover Sacrifice Exercise

This year, as in the past few years, despite problems in those years, a Paschal Sacrifice will be reenacted, as an exercise tomorrow, Thursday.  The money has been raised.

Here's a video explanation:

And here is the poster:

Now, some people might presume this either an outmoded or barbaric procedure.

Of course, barbecues are okay.

And the Samaritan ceremony is attended by hundreds of interested onlookers because that event is, well, folklorish.

Here are two pictures of what went on on Mount Gerizim over a century ago:

If you are a vegetarian, I guess your dislike is understandable.

But if not, just consider this as another practice for anthropological study.

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Preferred Government Poll Result

From the March 2017 Peace Indix Poll:-

The preferred government: 
If elections were to be held in the near future, a decisive majority of the Jewish public (70%) would want a right-wing (34%) or center-right (36%) government to take office as a result. A minority (24%) would prefer a center-left (22%) or left-wing (2%) government. A similar pattern of responses, but more clear-cut, emerges on the question of what government would have higher chances of being established if elections were to be held soon: 81% of the Jewish respondents estimate that a right-wing (35%) or center-right (46%) government would have higher chances, while only 8% attribute higher chances to a center-left (7%) or left-wing (1%) government. In other words, the overwhelming majority of the Jewish public prefers the hegemony of the right and also believes this hegemony would continue if new elections were to be held soon. In the Arab public, 58% would want a left-wing or center-left government (26.5% do not know) to take office, but only 10% expect that this would happen if elections were to be held in the near future.

Democracy in action.

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Was the 1939 British White Paper Legal?

Much of the criticism directed at Israel and specifically the status of its post-1967 administration of Judea and Samaria (and until 2005, Gaza), revolves around the question of what is legal and what may be illegal/

One claim is that a partition of the Mandate area was recommended in November 1947 but was rejected by the Arabs, as the rejected the 1937 partition and other offers. Given that rejection, Israel surely has a claim to additional territory especially as the Arabs not only rejected but launched a war of aggression at that time to prevent Israel from being establishment.  And since they continued their Mandate-era terror campaign throughout the 1950s and 1960s and then initiated a war in 1967 by closing the Tiran Straits, expelling UNO observers and by shelling Jerusalem and other locations in Israel, to which Israel responded defensively, causing Israel to react defensively, the areas gained legally belong to Israel twice-over: being part of the original Mandate area within which a Jewish national home was to be reconstituted and due to the nature of the 1967 war.

At this point, I wish to introduce one other aspect: the 1939 British White Paper.

That policy change, and here I follow the letter of the United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations of August 18, 1947,  intended to put an end to uncertainty as to the objectives of England's policy in Palestine, and to prepare the way for the termination of the Mandate. In opposition to the interpretation of the Balfour Declaration contained in the White Paper of 1922, the British government “now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State.”

However, at the same time, it "maintained the rejection of the Arab contention that they were pledged, by undertakings given during the war of 1914-18, to grant independence to the Arab population of Palestine as it could not agree that the McMahon correspondence forms a just basis for the claim that Palestine should be converted into an Arab State.”

There was to be a ten-year period of transition at the end of which the new independent State should enter into treaty relations with the United Kingdom.

As for Jewish immigration, not more than 75,000 additional immigrants during the five years beginning in April, 1939 would be permitted, and furthermore, “no further Jewish immigration will be permitted unless the Arabs of Palestine are prepared to acquiesce in it.”

The last section of the White Paper dealt with the transfer of land form Arab to Jewish ownership. Up until 1939, the Administration of Palestine is required, under Article 6 of the Mandate, to encourage “close settlement by Jews on the Land”, and no restriction had been imposed, the Paper claimed, on the transfer of land from Arabs to Jews. But the White Paper gave general powers to the High commissioner to prohibit and regulate transfers of land. 

The policy expounded in the White Paper was bitterly condemned by all Zionist opinion. The Zionist Congress of 1939 denied its moral and legal validity, and declared that the Jewish people would not acquiesce in the reduction of its status in Palestine to that of a minority. The Arabs criticised the length of the period of transition, the provision for its possible prolongation, and the proposal that representatives of the mandatory Power should participate in framing the constitution of the independent State. 

That was the background.

Paragraph 110 of that letter than noted:

The Mandatory’s new statement of policy was examined by the Permanent Mandates Commission at their thirty-sixth session in June, 1939. the commission reported that:

“the policy set out in the White Paper was not in accordance with the interpretation which, in agreement with the Mandatory Power and the Council, the Commission had always placed upon the Palestine Mandate.”

They went on to consider whether the Mandate was open to a new interpretation with which the White Paper would not be at variance. Four of the seven members

“did not feel able to state that the policy of the White Paper was in conformity with the Mandate, any contrary conclusion appearing to them to be ruled out by the very terms of the Mandate and by the fundamental intentions of its authors.”

The other three members “were unable to share this opinion; they consider that existing circumstances would justify the policy of the White Paper, provided the Council did not oppose it.”

In other words, the White Paper with all its restrictions and fundamental alteration of policy was, yes, illegal.

And unfortunately, the League of Nations Council was prevented from either approving or invalidating that White Paper due to the outbreak of war in September.

The 1947 Partition was rejected and became a dead letter.
The 1939 White Paper was illegal.
The 1937 Peel Partition was never accepted by the Arabs.

There is nothing illegal about Jews residing in Judea and Samaria, where they have always lived, except for the 19 years of Jordan's illegal occupation and annexation of the area when Jews were banned, as well as the 30 years of the Mandate period when Arabs engaged in a successful ethnic cleansing campaign forcing Jews out of Gaza, Samaria, Judea and the Jerusalem area.

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Construction: Beginnings and Ends

According to the report published by Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, by the end of 2016, 5% of the building starts in Israel were in the areas of Judea and Samaria:-

The actual number was 2,620 out of 52,400.

The percentage of construction completions is 3.9%:

The Yesha Council, in its weekly bulletin issue 519, noted that the previous numbers of starts were:

2015 - 1.624

2014 - 1,516

2013 - 2,874

In 2008, during Ehud Olmert's administration, 2,400 starts were registered and in 2000 when Ehud Barak was Prime Minister, 5,000 construction starts were recorded.

Year after year, the Judea and Samaria region records the lowest percentage of construction starts despite its large population growth and its potential of huge increase in housing needs.

That's what we call a "freeze".

Nevertheless, the actual parameters of the freeze described here in fact authorize vast amounts of construction which is a total reversal of Obama.

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Rabbi Cosgrove's Educational Message

I had posted on March 30 at 3:15 PM a Facebook comment that reads so about this event:-

Stupid is as stupid does.

"Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue says that speaker after speaker at AIPAC said that Israel is not an apartheid state, but his own daughter squirmed and pointed out, If Palestinians can't vote, doesn't that make it an apartheid state?"

They can vote. For Palestinian elections. But Abbas won't hold them. Undemocratic Palestinian Authority, not apartheid Israel.

That comment originated from this post which related the Rabbi's words at this event.

Here:

My point was that this is a charge that is quite easily dismissed.  If the daughter was referring to Israel, which I do not think she was, it is a ridiculous charge.  One place to learn the truth, among many, is EOZ's posters.

My presumption, however, is that she was referring to the situation of Arabs in Judea and Samaria who live under a military government (surprise, so do the Jews) and cannot vote for that administration which, to an extent, is an outreach of Israel's government for which we Israelis do vote.  And that is why is added:

They can vote. For Palestinian elections. But Abbas won't hold them. Undemocratic Palestinian Authority, not apartheid Israel.

When was Abbas last elected to the position of President of the Palestinian Authority?

January 9, 2005.  That is, er, more than 11 years ago.

If she was referring to a charge of "apartheid roads", I ask the Rabbi to show her my post
and my video (explanation here).  And he should ask here: how come Jews are killed by Arab terrorists in drive-by shootings if the roads are prohibited to be driven on by Arabs?

David E Y Sarna‏ was quite upset and on Mar 31 tweeted to me:

No evidence Rabbi did not teach his daughter. Just your own lashon hara. Apologize to him.

I replied to the former entrepreneur, blogger and almost author:

You ask him (if he taught his daughter). If he did, let me know and I'll apologize. Have you asked him? I am waiting to apologize. Or not.

I am still waiting. 

In the meantime, I see that Rabbi Cosgrove, the Senior Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue, Manhattan, back in December published this:

...far too often for far too many American Jews, we are left to wonder whether Israel loves us as much as we love Israel. We see an Israel that does not recognize the Judaism we practice...there is a moment, a moment in which we are living right now, that American Jewry’s historic reflexive support of Israel will no longer be a given.

American Jewry isn’t able to reconcile the dream of Israel as a liberal democracy and the death of the two-state solution; it is unable or unwilling to defend Israeli actions in the court of world or campus opinion. God help the person who criticizes a member of my family whom I love and loves me unconditionally, but for someone whose love for me is in question – well, that person, or in this case, that country will have to learn to fend for itself.

Is that the education he imparts to his family, not to mention his congregation?

If he would relay to me her email, I'll be in direct contact to assist her as to her concerns.


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UPDATE:


See also Caroline Glick:

Can we draw a line when seemingly mainstream leaders join the ranks of Shifrah and JVP in libeling Israel? Can we walk away from prominent American Jews who indicate that as far as they are concerned, Israel is a moral burden that they are having a hard time carrying because they believe – and propagate – slanders of Israeli society and of the IDF? Consider the case of Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove. Cosgrove is the rabbi of the toney Conservative Park Avenue Synagogue in New York.

Last week Cosgrove joined the radical chorus of voices advancing the Israel is Apartheid slander.

According to Mondoweiss, in an event at his synagogue following the AIPAC conference, Cosgrove spoke of his daughter’s uneasiness at the sound of speaker after speaker rejecting the false allegation that Israel is an apartheid state.

Cosgrove said that his daughter pointed to the fact that the Palestinians do not vote for the Knesset as proof that Israel is in fact apartheid.

As Yisrael Medad noted on his website, Cosgrove’s daughter’s statement was utter nonsense.

Why would Palestinians vote for the Knesset when they have the right to vote in the Palestinian elections? The Palestinian Authority, not Israel, is their governing body.

It isn’t Israel’s fault that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas has failed to hold an election since 2006.

The fact that Rabbi Cosgrove was unwilling to point this obvious truth out to his daughter, and indeed, the fact he thought her ignorant slur was worth repeating publicly and supportively to his congregants speaks volumes about his own anti-Israel prejudices.

Medad also noted that in an article in The Jerusalem Post last year, Cosgrove threatened Israel with a withdrawal of American Jewish communal support.

Cosgrove wrote, “American Jewry isn’t able to reconcile the dream of Israel as a liberal democracy and the death of the two-state solution; it is unable or unwilling to defend Israeli actions in the court of world or campus opinion.”

There is a straight line between Shifrah’s false claim that Israel needlessly and maliciously killed 2,300 Palestinians in Gaza in the 2014 war with Hamas and Cosgrove’s insinuations that Israel and its military actions are to blame for the absence of peace with the Palestinians.  Both are slanderous attacks against Israel. Their goal is not to cultivate a dialogue but to justify condemnations and opposition to Israel.

P.S.

And I again asked Sarna if Rabbi Cosgrove has denied, explained or admitted to his quoted words.  No reply still. ^ 

The Zionism of Brandeis

Given the state of American Zionism, it might refreshing to recall two comments made by Louis D. Brandeis in his letters:

No other comments required except that the term "Palestinians", of course, referred to Jews.

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