Oy– if Israel declared apartheid tomorrow, officially, American Jews would still sign off...
by Philip Weiss on September 4, 2009 · 9 comments
Jerusalem Post: A group of rabbis calling themselves the "Sanhedrin" have ruled that it a Jew who sells land to a Palestinian Israeli is an "enemy" and must be excommunicated.
Jerusalem: An axe-wielding Jew in an orhtodox neighborhood went on a rampage, attacking a Palestinian cab driver in a "lynching attempt," then trashing his car.
Tony Karon in the National– last March:
In a remarkable interview last November, the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert cautioned that unless it could achieve a two-state solution quickly, Israel would "face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, and as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished". The reason, he said, was that Israel would be internationally isolated. "The Jewish organisations, which are our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents."...
The New York Times: "...many American Jews on the left are passionately pro-Israel.."
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