May 2, 2010

"Are Israeli Policies Entrenching Anti-Semitism Worldwide?"

By Tony Klug, Tikkun, May/June 2010:
"Even posing the question is painful, for after all the suffering anti-Semitism has caused the Jewish people over the centuries, the last thing we need or deserve is to have it become a permanent state of affairs. Nonetheless, the proposition that the State of Israel, which was conceived as a way of normalizing relations between Jews and all other peoples, might instead be normalizing anti-Semitism is not one we can simply close our eyes to in the forlorn hope that it will go away of its own accord. . . ." [continued]