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By: Ginette Weiner

 

The history of anti-Zionist, anti-Israel smears, at The NY Times, continues long after their history of deliberately relegating to their back pages, authenticated reports of the Holocaust. Max Strasser, (who replaced proud Zionist Bari Weiss), writes, “I have a strong Jewish identity…yet identification with the State of Israel is not an important part of my identity…. a state that is predicated on ethnic nationalism, is not a state that will be wholeheartedly embraced by young American Jews like me. Strasser also championed Peter Beinart’s recent Times op-ed, renouncing Zionism, which called for the replacement of Israel with a binational state of Israel-Palestine.

 

Not that long ago, Jews with the Nazi tattoos still on their arms helped to build Israel, the only nation in all of the Middle East, to struggle with a true democracy, however imperfect. Israel is surrounded by 22 Arab and/or Muslim hostile Arab nations.  Israel affords full civil, religious, and legal rights to all its citizens, while having to maintain full security against terrorism. Arabs sit in the Knesset. Israel is the only state in the Middle East ranked ‘Free’ by Freedom House, which evaluates countries according to their political rights and civil liberties. And relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth.   Israel’s land comprises just  0.25% of the entire land mass of the Middle East, less than the size of New Jersey.  Since 1947, Israel has been seeking a two-state solution. But the Arabs refuse to accept the reality of the Jewish state, refuse peace offers and refuse to negotiate. That is the true obstacle to peace.

 

If you are a Christian living in the Middle East, name the only place you can worship freely? Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where the Christian population is growing. Israel safeguards important Christian sites including many associated with the life of Jesus. If you are lesbian, homosexual or transgender, name the only place you can openly and safely be who you are.  In stark contrast to the rest of Israel’s Middle Eastern neighbors, Israeli law affords full rights to its LGBT citizens, including employment discrimination laws.  If you are a female or a girl, where are your civil rights fully protected? Guess again. It’s not under Islam.

 

Where is your freedom of speech protected?  Human Rights Watch: “Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza carried out scores of arbitrary arrests for peaceful criticism of the authorities. Security forces routinely taunt, threaten, beat, and force detainees into painful stress positions for hours at a time.”

 

From the arrogant safety of their offices, they reject the Jewish “ethnic nationalism” of Israel, call for Jews to be minorities, beholden to Arabs for their existence and safety.  Perhaps Strasser and Beinart were out to lunch when the ADL’s worldwide survey of 100 countries found:

 

  • The 16 countries and territories having the highest levels of antisemitism were all in the Muslim Middle East, where levels of antisemitism ranged from 74% to 93% of the population.
  • There is increased anti-Jewish violence, and “extremely high” levels of antisemitism among Muslims in Western Europe, up to four and a half times the level in the general population.
  • “There is no place on the planet where anti-Semitism is not surging or percolating”, says a new United Nations report on global anti-Semitism.
  • Annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that, by far, it is the world’s tiny population of Jews-15 million in a world of nearly eight billion-who experience the most bias, hatred, assaults, blatant racism and hate crimes.

 

I would strongly recommend an extended stay in any of the nations or territories surrounding Israel to see what kinds of, if any, civil and legal rights they are afforded, as Jews, or even as citizens, assuming they are allowed entry into these Juden free Arab nations. I can guarantee you Strasser and Beinart will be screaming and pleading the loudest when they come for them.  Each of these dangerous, genocidal Jews will make first rate second class citizens under the domination of their future host countries, for fear of their miserable lives.

 

Ginette Weiner is a published commentator in Jewish and mainstream newspapers, on strategies for combating media bias, antisemitism, and BDS.

 

 

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