David French is not a US Senator. Too bad. He has principles, unlike Senators Charles Schumer and Bernie Sanders, who are both Jewish, and who both rationalized away Graham Platner’s Nazi Totenkopf tattoo — which he kept for 18 years and which, one of his (many) ex-girlfriends told the NYT, he called “my Totenkopf.”
Amidst all of her bobbing and weaving, obfuscation, indirect answers, non-answers and deflections, Melat Kiros still manages to make herself clear. When asked whether Israel has a right to exist, and why she will not condemn the firebombing of a predominantly Jewish group that injured many and killed one Jew on June 1 in Boulder, Kiros’ intent becomes clear.
The anti-Zionism of today — the latest iteration of assimilation — is worse than the anti-Zionism of the Pittsburgh Platform. The early anti-Zionism damaged the Jewish body politic spiritually but did not damage Jews physically. There was no immediate threat to Jewish life in the assertion of anti-Jewish nationalism in the Pittsburgh Platform.
Remember when President Trump pronounced Gaza as the future Riviera of the Middle East? Remember when the US-imposed ceasefire in Gaza of Oct. 10 promised the reconstruction of Gaza premised on the disarming of Hamas? Remember — if only for the one week since it was signed — the US-brokered peace plan for Lebanon, based on the disarmament of Hezbollah?