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Creating a False Choice between Israel’s Jewishness and Its Democracy » Mosaic

The question asked was, “Israel is defined as both a Jewish and a democratic state. Which part of this definition is more important to you personally?” Thus, respondents weren’t given the option of “both equally”; they were instructed to choose either Jewish or democratic, and were recorded as valuing both traits equally only if they volunteered that view despite its not being listed.

Ron Radosh » Todd Gitlin “Defends” Israel: The Contortions of a “Pro-Israel” Left-wing Jew

This is the essence of Gitlin’s tepid, half-hearted approach that he believes is how Israel must be defended. Don’t make Israel, he tells them, “a litmus test for the left.” Gitlin does not get it. Indeed, to the  most of the American Left , especially in academia, attacking Israel is the major cause of our time. It already is their litmus test.  That cause is to oppose Israel’s very right to exist

Ron Radosh » A New Tactic in the Left’s Never-Ending War Against Israel

in today’s world, to call yourself a leftist or a person of the Left is to first and foremost demand the end of Israel.