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May 28, 2021

When It Comes to Israel, Jews Can No Longer Sit on the Fence

When congregants are angry at their rabbi for not devoting a sermon to “Israeli war crimes.”

To Liel Leibovitz, something has changed about the condition of American Jewry between the last eruption of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the current one. He identifies the change not so much in the intensity or extent of the anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence it has provoked, but in the fact that the fighting “opened up a chasm that many of us [American Jews] have spent our lifetimes trying to avoid.” In short, it has ceased to be possible to remain neutral or aloof with regard to Israel; Jews must now choose to be either Zionists or anti-Zionists:

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