George Washington, European Jewry, and the Promise of Tolerance without Fear
“Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
January 15, 2016
Blaming the messenger.
An Israeli television program reported earlier this week that two prominent Jewish Israeli left-wing activists had been involved in entrapping Palestinians trying to sell land to Israelis and then handing them over to the Palestinian Authority—which generally punishes this “crime” with death. Contrasting the defensive reaction to these revelations from leaders of the Israeli left to the widespread and firm condemnations from the Israeli right following an attack on a Palestinian family last summer, Liel Leibovitz writes:
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Login or Subscribe“Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
Blaming the messenger.
BDS advocates made an abysmally poor case for themselves.
Abraham Isaac Kook and S. Y. Agnon
He recorded hours of survivor testimony in 1946.