Washington Post Tries to Turn Young American Jews against Israel

A despicable attempt by the Washington Post to turn young American Jews against Israel.  Their recent article, by Molly Roberts, begins, “Many Americans have had considerable trouble condemning Israel for killing at least 60 Palestinians at the border with Gaza. That should upset no one more than American Jews.”  Nice.

Then, it goes on to shame Jews for not being pro-Palestinian.  Really:

… there has always been an uneasiness among many progressive Jews here to identify as anything but Zionist, even if we’re not sure what the word means anymore. Even if the empathy for the marginalized that’s central to our faith seems to run up against our support for a country that marginalizes Palestinians every day in the occupied territories where they’re treated as second-class citizens, or in Gaza where they’re blockaded away with scant access to potable water or electricity.

Pew has found that younger Americans feel more distance from Israel than our parents and our parents’ parents, but for many, the answer to the dissonance between the Jewish state and Jewish values has been to avoid taking much of a stance at all. Though some have spoken up, and even founded organizations to counter older, more conservative forces like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), others have stayed quiet. It has been easy enough to say we’re pro-Israel but not pro-occupation, or to use the truth that there’s no simple solution as an excuse to avoid unpleasant complexity.

It’s not easy anymore.

The article goes on to mischaracterize the conflict, so I won’t list her lies here.  I just wanted to point out how truly evil this is…right here in the American press. The headline is “American Jews, it’s Time to Take a Side.”  You don’t have to spend much time time figuring out which side the newspaper wants you to take.

Here’s a thought: If the Palestinians would stop hating and killing, there would be immediate peace. But hate, death and violence are all taught to their children, in their schools.  This kind of propaganda in an American newspaper is despicable.

And speaking of propaganda, I loved this tweet, a video of “dead Palestinian martyrs” meant to inflame American audiences.

When you’re a dead Palestinian martyr but your nose keeps itching pic.twitter.com/WUh60xq7t5

— p4z (@_p4z_) May 16, 2018

It’s too bad that American newspapers are about as trustworthy as the above video.

Hat Tip: Washington Post

Image Credit: By Boris Niehaus (www.1just.de) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons