Last Friday, Peter Beinart and a few dozen Jewish anti-Zionists had a marvelous time in Hebron.
They wore funny blue T-shirts and sang about “tikkun olam” (repairing the world) in two languages.
They pretended they were civil rights activists.Exactly. Which leads me to conclude that, for "progressive" Jews like Pete the putz, "tikkum olam" is Hebrew for "screw Israel."
They videotaped themselves being brave. They got shown to the door by security forces after wrecking a Palestinian farmer’s grazing land while supposedly defending him.
Five dual Israeli-American citizens got arrested.
And the rest ate a late lunch.
All in all, it was a great experience.
The sight of Beinart and his comrades locking hands and singing Debbie Friedman songs in Hebron was so absurd it was funny. But there was a menacing aspect to their solipsistic showmanship.
Beinart told the JTA reporter who joined them for the protest party, “I feel like I’m seeing the emergence of a new leadership.... People will try to write these guys off as lefties that don’t have any connection to the Jewish community. But... these kids actually come from the bosom of the Jewish community.
A lot of them are affiliated.”
No doubt they are. But to what? According to JTA, “Many belong to left-wing Israel advocacy groups such as J Street and the New Israel Fund, and others to groups that more deeply divide the pro-Israel community, including Jewish Voice for Peace, which supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, and IfNotNow, which holds its own sit-ins at US Jewish groups.”
In other words, they come from the marginal fringe of the American Jewish community. They represent no statistically significant demographic.
But they believe that their fringe voices should balance out the vast majority of affiliated Jews who disagree with them, simply because they like tikkun olam.
Update: Beinart sings (to the tune of "Moon River"):
Tik' Olam,
Let's "repair" the globe
Although the task, we're told,
Is big.
We're all dreamers,
And real schemers,
And once Zion's finished
We'll all dance a jig.
Too crazy,
That is what we are.
More virtuous by far
Than thee.
We aim to bring "changes," by gum!
Even though they're dumb,
My huckleberry chum,
It's Tik' Olam for me!
These people make their annual publicity trip to Israel, stir up crap then go home to smugly brag to their smarmy friends about how good they feel about themselves. They, who do not have to deal with the day to day life in a tiny country surrounded by hatred. They have no idea what it is like to live in a real Jewish community in the land of Israel among real people who truly love Eretz Israel. I don't care if they don't want to make aliyah, but I do resent the fact that they try to destroy us by unloading their insane and dangerous ideas~and then go "home" and leave us to face the daily attacks. And there are always attacks because these loons give power to our enemies. "Putz" is much too kind a word!
ReplyDeleteYou're right. He's an abominable putz.
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