Orthodox Jew Does Not Support Zionism; American Jewish Establishment Stifles Free Speech to Silence Zionism’s Critics | The Ugly Truth

Orthodox Jew Does Not Support Zionism; American Jewish Establishment Stifles Free Speech to Silence Zionism’s Critics | The Ugly Truth

Faced with the growing number of Americans who deny that Zionism is compatible with liberal democracy, establishment American Jewish groups could try to make Zionism more compatible with liberal democracy. They could publicly challenge Israel’s undemocratic occupation of the West Bank. But that would require confronting Benjamin Netanyahu, and many of their own donors.

So they’ve chosen an easier path: get the Department of Education to define anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism and thus threaten the campus activists who are challenging Jewish statehood with legal sanction. The Senate bill claims that “Nothing in this act…shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected by the First Amendment.”

But that’s exactly what the bill does. In the words of Michael Macleod-Ball, chief of staff of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, DC legislative office, it “opens the door to considering anti-Israel political statements and activities as possible grounds for civil rights investigations.” It’s an old story: When people in power fear a debate, they try to criminalize it. It won’t work.

If Zionism means permanent control of millions of Palestinians who lack basic rights, Zionists will gradually lose the contest of ideas in the United States. And the American Jewish establishment—which chose silencing Zionism’s opponents over fighting for a Zionism they could honestly defend—will bear some of the blame.

Source: American Jewish Establishment Stifles Free Speech to Silence Zionism’s Critics | The Ugly Truth

ORTHODOX JEW SAYS HE DOES NOT SUPPORT ZIONISM, TEACHES IDEOLOGY OF ZIONISM

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