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Friday, November 08, 2002
Hanna Rosin on whether the divestment movement is anti-Semitic,makes a wholly non-compelling case. She simply assumes that the movers and shakers behind the movement are anti-Semites, without a serious attempt to prove her point; her main point comes in this description of moderate Palestinian students being railroaded by Berkeley types:The Palestinians, meanwhile, were more diplomatic, trying to keep out any mention of Zionism or specific "tactics adopted by the Palestinian people" from the movement's guiding principles. But in the end, they turned out to be no models of restraint. When conference participants offered a resolution saying that the divestment movement's vision of "true peace" included "coexistence" with a "transformed and democratized" Israel and a renunciation of Palestinian claims on cities inside Israel, such as Haifa and Jaffa, none of the Palestinian leaders voted for it, according to a report in the school paper and the Jewish Forward. What is undeniable is that the divestment movement will always be targeted at Jews; what is further undeniable is that the divestment movement cannot be meant to target Jews who do not participate in Israel's endeavors. There are two groups of Jews here, one that will be affected by the divestment campaign, and one that will be imposed upon only in the sympathetic sense that Jews in America care about Jews in Israel.
Steven I. Weiss 3:09:00 PM
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