America’s Jewish left endorses anti-Jewish discrimination

 Stephen M. Flatow, an profession in New Jersey, is a father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian militant dispute in 1995. His book, “A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror,” has usually been published.

American Jewish assent activists who have spent most of their lives fighting taste opposite racial minorities, have motionless there is one form of taste they support: taste opposite Jews who reside in Judea-Samaria.

I am referring to a open minute about a Airbnb discuss that was released on Dec 4 by a New Israel Fund, J Street, Americans for Peace Now, T’ruah, and Partners for Progressive Israel.

Airbnb announced that it will “ mislay listings in Israeli settlements in a assigned West Bank that are during a core of a brawl between Israelis and Palestinians.”

If Airbnb had private listings from all communities in that region, that would not be discriminatory. But that’s not what it did. Airbnb private listings usually from Israeli (read: Jewish) communities. Arab settlements were not affected.

To conclude what Airbnb has done, cruise a box of a city of Hevron. Some of a Palestinian Arab residents illegally occupy homes that were stolen from Jews during a 1929 pogrom. Deeds exist proof that. Such Palestinian settlements in Hebron are positively partial of “the brawl between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Not usually did a Jewish leftwing Gang of Five urge Airbnb in their open letter, though they proceeded to rigourously delegitimize each Jewish village in Judea-Samaria.
But Airbnb is still doing business with them.

And what about bootleg Palestinian Arab settlements in Shechem, improved famous as Nablus?  Until a 1930s, there was a vast and abounding Jewish village there. Today there is not a singular Jewish proprietor in Shechem. Wonder what ever happened to them? Arab pogromists gathering them out and took their homes. Airbnb apparently has no problem with that.

And neither, it seems, do a New Israel Fund, J Street, et al.  Not usually did a Jewish leftwing Gang of Five urge Airbnb in their open letter, though they proceeded to rigourously delegitimize each Jewish village in Judea-Samaria.

Airbnb’s de-listings “will usually start in deceptive West Bank settlements,” a Gang of Five asserted. “Airbnb objects to a settlements not since they are Jewish though since they adopt Palestinian land.”

The explain that each Jewish village in a territories is “illegitimate” and “usurps Palestinian land” is, of course, a infamous lie. It echoes a longtime Arab promotion evidence that Jews have no current religious, historic, or authorised tie to Judea and Samaria—the territories that have been a heart of a inhabitant Jewish homeland for 3,000 years. 

In a perspective of these 5 groups, each in. of Judea and Samaria is “Palestinian land,” and any Jew who lives there is an “usurper” who deserves to be boycotted, treated as a pariah, and eventually driven out.

Obviously if Jewish leftwing groups select to support anti-Jewish discrimination—by boycotting usually Jewish settlements and not Arab ones—that is their right according a U.S. Constitution. And if these groups wish to disciple that each in. of Judea and Samaria is “usurped Palestinian land,” that, too, is their right.

But that does not meant a orderly American Jewish village has to provide such extremist positions as legitimate.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization overwhelmingly deserted J Street’s focus for membership several years ago. That was a correct move. Jewish powerful groups that have relations with a New Israel Fund and a other members of a Gang of Five should recur either they wish to contend those relationships.

Partners for Progressive Israel (PPI), for example, is a member of a American Zionist Movement. It’s satisfactory to ask either PPI’s support for taste opposite Israeli Jews is unchanging with a AZM’s announced goal is “ to strengthen a tie of American Jews with Israel; rise their appreciation of a centrality of Israel to Jewish life worldwide; lower their bargain of Israeli multitude and a hurdles it faces; inspire travel, long-term visits and Aliyah to Israel; and to promote dialogue, discuss and common movement to serve Zionism in a United States and abroad.”

Is advocating taste opposite Jews in Judea-Samaria unchanging with a AZM’s goal statement?

Free debate is a dedicated principle. we would never disciple that any indicate of perspective should be suppressed or prohibited. At a same time, Jewish powerful organizations have no requirement to welcome those whose activities dispute with a powerful group’s announced mission. Refraining from such an welcome would not strike on a radicals’ right or ability to contend what they want. It would simply meant not consultation Jewish community legitimacy on those who are now compelling taste opposite some Jews.