HOW 'PROGRESSIVE' AMERICANS ENDORSE PALESTINIAN HISTORICAL FALSIFICATIONS AND DISREGARD THEIR ACUTE ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Why the Left does not understand the Arab war against Israel.

By Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin, Algemeiner



French Hill, Jerusalem
 

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz likes to say that if you are for civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, minority rights, basic freedoms of speech, press, association, open democracy, and an independent judiciary, there is only one country in the Middle East that espouses those values you support: Israel. And he is absolutely correct.

 

But there appears to be a major disconnect among American Jews.  Today, too many Jewish Americans are ambivalent about Israel, or even openly hostile towards it, believing erroneously  that Israel acts in ways that contradict their “progressive” or “liberal” ideals.   Jews are even at the forefront of some of the most vicious anti-Israel organizations in the U.S.
 

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