For Israelis, Anti-Zionism Kills
What’s worse: to be denied membership in a country club or to be driven from your ancestral homeland?
December 14, 2018
What’s worse: to be denied membership in a country club or to be driven from your ancestral homeland?
This week alone, anti-Zionists have killed multiple Israelis in a series of attacks; these follow the revelations that Hizballah succeeded in digging multiple attack tunnels from Lebanon into northern Israel. Simultaneously, some recent news stories in the U.S. have occasioned pious reminders that anti-Zionism should not be conflated with anti-Semitism. Bret Stephens notes that it is anti-Zionists, not defenders of Israel, who do the most to blur that distinction:
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Lebanon, unlike Syria, has been spared Israeli airstrikes.
A “view of Judaism on its own terms.”
Right, left, and Islamist.
Via Cairo, Aleppo, and Oxford.