The U.S. Should Give Up Its Seat on the UN Human Rights Council
Don’t legitimize attacks on American corporations for doing business with Israel.
March 1, 2017
Making common cause with people who want to kill Jews.
It’s no surprise that many American Jews are among Donald Trump’s most vocal opponents, or that many claim to oppose him specifically as Jews. But, writes Bari Weiss, this position has been leading some of them to ignore the anti-Semitism of their potential political bedfellows. Among the leaders of the anti-Trump women’s movement are Linda Sarsour—a dedicated proponent of BDS who has commented that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and displayed callousness toward the mistreatment of women in Muslim lands—and Rasmea Odeh, a convicted Palestinian terrorist who participated in two bombings in Jerusalem, one of which left two dead and nine wounded:
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Palestinians don’t trust their Arab brethren.
Making common cause with people who want to kill Jews.
“The man who wrote that book died many years ago.”
The rabbis of Peki’in.