How Long Will U.S. Taxpayers Continue to Fund Palestinian Terrorism?
The Taylor Force Act and the PA’s ideology.
November 15, 2016
The Left Splits over How Much of Israel to Boycott
In the New York Review of Books, even the Zionists want to boycott Jerusalem.
Some 300 professors and intellectuals—among them Peter Beinart and Todd Gitlin—signed an October open letter in the New York Review of Books, opposing a boycott of Israel within the pre-June 1967 armistice lines but endorsing a boycott of territories occupied after the Six-Day War. The letter provoked an indignant response, signed by Angela Davis, Richard Falk, Rashid Khalidi, Alice Walker, and some 120 others, arguing that the first letter, “by omitting Israel's other serious violations of international law, . . . fails the moral-consistency test.” To the critics, the only reasonable approach is to boycott Israel altogether. Elliott Abrams takes a look at the first and ostensibly more “pro-Israel” of the two statements:
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Israel and Egypt Improve Their Economic Ties
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The Left Splits over How Much of Israel to Boycott
In the New York Review of Books, even the Zionists want to boycott Jerusalem.
S. Y. Agnon’s Ironic View of Zionism’s Future and the Jewish Past
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