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Jonathan Greenberg

Coalitions are a great thing. But alliances only work if they don’t undermine what you claim to stand for.
We need to fearlessly teach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We don’t really do it now because the politics of it have become toxic, the narratives entrenched and the complexities overwhelming.
The words of Husam Zomlot were warmly received during a 34-minute speech that talked about “two democratic states” and “a meaningful peace process.”
Attendees at the organization’s 10th-anniversary conference were given a lobbying agenda that includes a laundry list of mandates aimed at the Jewish state—and none required of the Palestinians.
A fringe element within the Jewish community uses language and imagery stolen from classical anti-Semitic tropes, sides publicly with declared enemies of the Jewish people, and clumsily but intentionally wields their Judaism as a weapon against the rest of us.