"It began when the party decided to lower its security flag to half-mast," the former IDF Sayeret Matkal commander lamented.
To my leftist brethren, I say: Please stop being intellectually dishonest. Stop talking about an “end to democracy” when you are the ones trying to overturn the results of the last election.
For too long, antisemitism from some elements of the political Left in Europe has been excused as “just criticism of Israel” or not worthy of attention. It must be fought and rejected.
The participants were not all cut of the same cloth: They came from the Right and the Left and included those in favor of the reform and those opposed.
No matter how hard J Street tries, no matter how many times J Street defends or praises Bowman, Omar, or Ocasio-Cortez, their wing of the Democratic Party simply hates Israel.
To the left and the right everyone is making a mess in Israeli politics. Ironically, IDF soldiers, who are much younger than the Knesset members in charge, are forced to act as the nation's adults.
Not only must we call out antisemitism when we see it in others, but when we see it emanating from our political party, as well.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: In an ugly skirmish for dominance, the Zionist parties on the Right and Left aligned with the fringes.
The World Zionist Congress has been rocked by arguments between the right and left surrounding the judicial reform.
This spring has seen the launch of two Jewish journals — Masorti, a reboot of the former Conservative Judaism, and Fragments, a product of the left-leaning Jewish human rights group T’ruah.
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