Jews against Israel - The Jewish Chronicle

In South Africa, I don't think it is coincidental that the boycott movement is led by two Jews... Steven Friedman and Ronnie Kasrils. And The UNHRC, of course, used Richard Goldstone. Jews are free to oppose Israel. No country is perfect. But it is still worth studying and exposing what they have to personally gain from doing so; for some reason, there is a great reluctance/fear to do so. Just for the record, my following comment wasn't published by "Engage". I assume that it was perceived as being an unfair jibe. However, in the SA context it was relevant since it revealed the academic status quo at South African universities; it would be foolish to pretend that such bias it does not exist. http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/proposals-to-boycott-israel... Blacklisted Dictator Says: Prof Fine writes: “You are quite right to say that Israeli Jews not affiliated with Israeli universities are not directly affected.” In the case of Ran Greenstein, that conclusion is correct. He is an Israeli Jew employed by Wits University in SA. But would he have got that position if his academic research had been less critical of Israel? Who precisely is “the useful idiot”? http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-30.htm Jews against Israel 1 March 2005 Manfred Gerstenfeld A Multidisciplinary Assessment Required One also finds anti-Israeli Jews in various human rights organizations and other NGOs. Jews with a strong anti-Israel bias in the media are another group requiring in-depth research. A more profound analysis should not be limited to the factual assessment of speech, text and actions. The phenomenon should also be assessed politically, culturally, psychologically and socially. Though there is collaboration between Israeli and Jewish anti-Israel forces, there are also important differences between the two which should be detailed. As aforementioned, if one reads anti-Semitic texts without knowing the author, one is often unable to guess whether the author is Jew or gentile. Yet there are specific aspects in the hate writings of some Jews against Israel. These concern the use of one's family's Holocaust experiences, references to being Jewish and an association of some kind with Israel. It would have been a wise policy for Israel and the Jewish defense organizations to have confronted these attacks on Israel much earlier and more aggressively. Once a phenomenon reaches greater proportions without checking, it becomes far more difficult to fight.