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Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen is managing director of American Jewish Committee (AJC) Europe.

International discourse must stop disproportionately criticizing every Israeli action. Palestinians are not passive victims without agency.
Some policymakers still seem to believe that reasonableness can prevail in the face of a regime that feels more emboldened every day.
If we want the new generation to believe that the West—that liberal democracies—stand for immutable values, then don’t we have the moral obligation to do more?
It is timely to remember Alexis de Tocqueville’s warning about the tyranny of the majority as the reach of social media now places “truth” on the side with the seemingly higher numbers.