Both Jason Stanley and Peter Beinart ask today whether the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran might step up antisemitism. Stanley says,
"Restrictions on speech critical of Israel lend unwarranted legitimacy to antisemitic ideologies. For the sake of both democracy and Jewish safety worldwide, it is therefore essential to allow citizens to freely criticize Israel without fear or sanction."
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Citizens in a Democracy Must Be Allowed to Criticize Israel
If you cannot say what is true about Israel’s horrific actions in the world, you do not live in a democracy, writes fascism expert Jason Stanley.Jason Stanley (Zeteo)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Beinart:
"[The US Jewish estabishment] can’t distinguish between what the Israeli government wants and what’s good for the American people.
And I think partly, this is a result of how cloistered the American Jewish establishment is. I’m not talking about American Jews in general. American Jews are widely integrated into American society in all kinds of ways."
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The Danger This War Poses to American Jews
Ken Silverman (The Beinart Notebook)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"But the oligarchy that runs American Jewish organizations, the large donors, the people who work for those very large donors, that is a very cloistered, self-enclosed world in many ways. And I think it shields people from an actual understanding, in some ways, of what’s happening in American society, about the suffering that Americans endure as a result of these wars," (continued in /4)
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •(continued from /3)
:that the American Jewish organizations keep pushing for. And I don’t think that these people in these positions either understand or are willing to understand how dangerous their actions are for us as American Jews."
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