Should Israel Bar Entry to Genocidal Anti-Semites/Racists?

 

 

[“If The Forward is Trying to Make Jews Look Stupid, Venal, and Dishonest, It’s Doing a Bang-Up Job!”]
 

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Peter Beinart is the Jewish version of genocidal white racists, you know, the ones who call themselves “anti-racists” and “anti-fascists”? He supports the annihilation of the Jews of Israel, white South Africa, and surely white America/the white race. The logical is ineluctable.

Not too long ago, The Forward, the fake, “Jewish” magazine, officially permitted comments on just about everything, certainly most or all op-ed pieces. Now, it rarely permits comments. In practice, however, there was little freedom to comment. As I learned the hard way, if you didn’t toe the red line, they deleted your comments.

My parents gave me many gifts, but the most important was their example. They loved South Africa and they opposed apartheid. And when the tension between their lives and their principles grew too great, they chose the latter, and they left. As I [sic] child, I sensed their sadness and their isolation. And I felt proud to be their son.

Peter Beinart’s parents didn’t love South Africa. They were probably communists. And how does Beinart feel about the ongoing genocide of South African whites? Oh, he doesn’t talk about that. In other words, he supports it.

South Africa was destroyed by a boycott movement that was the same as the BDS war (“Boycott/Divestment/Sanction”) being waged by a coalition of genocidally anti-Semitic Jews (communists), Moslems, and white gentiles (communists and anarchists).

The Israeli Knesset and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu want to save Israel as a Jewish state. They don’t recognize Beinart’s “principle” of just a spoonful of BDS. Peter Beinart wants to destroy Israel, and replace it with “Palestine,” but he won’t say that openly.

“In my family, we have a tradition. We lose countries but we keep our self-respect.”

In other words, ‘Holocaust II, here we come!’

 

 

I Support Boycotting Settlements — Should I be Banned from Israel with My Children?
By Peter Beinart
March 8, 2017
Jewish Voice for Peace
[“Jewish Voice for Peace” is a front for Marxist Jews who support Holocaust II.]
[The Forward permits no comments!]
The Forward

I have a theory about American Jewish kids and Israel. I’m trying it out on my own.

My theory boils down to: “love first, truth later.” When my kids near adulthood, I’ll encourage them to visit the West Bank. I’ll encourage them to see for themselves what it means to hold millions of people as non-citizens, under military law, without free movement or due process. I’ll encourage them to read real histories of Israel’s war of independence, histories that explode the myth that most Palestinian refugees left their homes willingly. I’ll encourage them to consume as much Palestinian poetry, literature, journalism and film as possible. I want them to see how Israel looks from the other side.

But not too early. My fear is that if they encounter harsh truths at too young an age, it will drive them away. They’ll grow to hate Israel, or wash their hands of it. I’ve seen that happen a lot.

My plan, while they’re young, is to immerse them in positive Jewish and Israel-related experiences. My hope is that the chaotic reunion of Jews from every corner of the globe in the land where Jewish history began will fill them with wonder. Who knows if my plan will work? Parenting has already taught me a lot about humility. But I try. When we were preparing for our first family trip to Israel, I told my son — who was six — that we would visit Jaffa. “The place where Jonah escaped from!” he exclaimed. That’s what I’m aiming for.




I’m aiming for it because I believe that if my kids first learn to love Jewish history, Jewish tradition and the Jewish people — close to half of whom live in the Jewish state — that will shape their response to the harsh truths they encounter later. They won’t turn away in disgust; they’ll struggle. They’ll be like the young people in organizations like J Street U and If Not Now. They’ll face ugly realities with both outrage and love. They’ll challenge the American Jewish community while remaining part of the American Jewish community.

Why am I writing this now? Because the Knesset has just thrown a wrench in my plan. On Monday, it passed a law denying entry to any person “who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel” or any territory “under Israeli control,” which includes settlements in The West Bank.

I’m one of those people.

In 2012, I wrote a book that urged American Jews to buy products from “democratic Israel,” the territory inside Israel’s original boundaries in which Jews and Palestinians live under the same law, but not “non-democratic Israel,” the West Bank, where Jews enjoy citizenship and Palestinians live under colonial rule. So while I oppose boycotting Israel as a whole, I support boycotting Israeli settlements, which I believe threaten Israel’s moral character and its long-term survival.

I’m joined in that belief by prominent Israeli writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz and A. B Yehoshua But I doubt that will help me when I’m standing in front of the admissions clerk at Ben Gurion Airport.

I have no idea how the new law will be enforced. I suspect, as often happens, that the greatest victims will be people who lack my Jewish privilege — particularly Palestinians from the West Bank and beyond who are prevented from visiting their relatives in Israel proper.

[“Jewish privilege”? How obscene. Calling the citizenship rights of Jews in their own country, “Jewish privilege.” Well, I’m sure Beinart thinks the same of American whites.]

Still, the uncertainty is weird. Last summer, we took our children to Israel for two weeks. We went to the beach, and the desert, and spent Shabbat in Jerusalem, and I ducked off for a day to participate in a protest in Hebron. My kids deepened their connection to Israel; I assuaged my conscience.

Now, it seems, the Knesset wants me to choose. Either stop visiting Israel or stop opposing the occupation. In a variety of ways, that’s the deal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been offering American Jews for close to a decade now. Embrace Israel at the cost of your principles or embrace your principles at the cost of Israel.

[What “principles” is Beinart talking about? Anti-Semitism? Racism?]

I know how most universalistic, secular American Jewish millennials will answer that question. So do the activists who lead the boycott, divestment and sanction movement. That’s part of the reason they’re so optimistic.

I don’t know how my own children will answer it. Since they were born, I’ve been trying to prevent them from having to choose. With every Jewish day school payment, and every book of Torah stories, and every Israel festival, and every Purim costume, my wife and I have tried to chart a path between a rock and a hard place.

Now, in my long-running battle with Netanyahu for my children’s identity, he’s struck an unexpected blow. The good news is that in a few years, they will start going to Israel on school trips without me. I hope they visit many, many times, and come to cherish the place as I do. My mother once told me that my grandfather, for whom my son is named, was never happier than when he was arguing politics on Dizengoff Street. God willing, my son and daughter will pass many days doing that too.

But if I can’t be there with them, so be it. My parents gave me many gifts, but the most important was their example. They loved South Africa and they opposed apartheid. And when the tension between their lives and their principles grew too great, they chose the latter, and they left. As I [sic] child, I sensed their sadness and their isolation. And I felt proud to be their son.

[His parents didn’t love South Africa. They were probably communists. And how does Beinart feel about the ongoing genocide of South African whites? Oh, he doesn’t talk about that. In other words, he supports it.]

In my family, we have a tradition. We lose countries but we keep our self-respect.

Peter Beinart is a Forward senior columnist and contributing editor. Listen to his new podcast, Fault Lines, with Daniel Gordis.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward.

[Why? Not anti-Semitic enough?]
 

Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart is a Senior Columnist at The Forward and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is also a Contributor to The Atlantic and a CNN Political Commentator.