New York – New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg Defends Anti-Zionism

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    New York – Michelle Goldberg, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote a piece defending anti-Zionism and saying it is not anti-Semitism.

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    “The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is a bit of rhetorical sleight-of-hand that depends on treating Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish people everywhere,” she wrote Friday. “Certainly, some criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but it’s entirely possible to oppose Jewish ethno-nationalism without being a bigot.”

    The column is a big deal because while The Times opinion page is generally left wing on Israel, most of its columnists who write on the country range from liberal to conservative Zionists.

    Goldberg noted that two incoming Democratic congresswoman, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, or BDS. She wrote that many people call BDS anti-Semitic because it subjects Israel to a double standard and, in endorsing a return of Palestinian refugees to Israel, could lead to the end of a Jewish-majority state.

    Indeed, equating BDS with anti-Semitism is the consensus among a broad swath of Jewish organizations; last week, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, representing over 50 Jewish groups, called Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters “anti-Israel and anti-Jewish” for his vocal support of BDS.

    But Goldberg said that opposing Israel and calling for a binational Israeli-Palestinian state is legitimate. She criticized Israel for its government’s close relationship to the Trump administration and right-wing nationalist governments in Europe, as well as for West Bank settlement expansion and the Israeli government’s opposition to Palestinian statehood.

    “As long as the de facto policy of the Israeli government is that there should be only one state in historic Palestine,” Goldberg wrote, “it’s unreasonable to regard Palestinian demands for equal rights in that state as anti-Semitic.”


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    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    5 years ago

    anti-Zionism is not necessarily antisemitism however antisemites do hide behind anti-zionism to condemn Jews. Example, the Satmar rebbi is anti-zionist but not antisemitic, but the Muslims who believe blindly in the Koran (which is antisemitic – read it, like I did!) who are anti-zionists are also antisemites.

    Needless to say, many who are in BDS are antisemities too….

    PureSatmar
    PureSatmar
    5 years ago

    Kudos!
    Words of reason and common sense!

    SHEPSEL
    SHEPSEL
    5 years ago

    She’s a real Machsefa. Zoll zi zan a kapora far klal Yisroel.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    NYT is all the trash that’s fit to print.

    AmYisroel
    AmYisroel
    5 years ago

    Typical leftist anti Israel democrat scumbag

    Saner
    Saner
    5 years ago

    Let her live in Sderot until she gets hit by a Kassam

    5 years ago

    How interesting! She gets what our Jewish brethren dont. Modern Israel of today and authentic Judaism have absolute no connection. A good Jew who believes un G d shld automatically oppose the heretical State of Israel. It was founded to spite Hashem then and it continues so every day. Heartwarming to hear our anti Zionism message coming thru.

    5 years ago

    Ever so slowly but the TRUE message is getting across. Its Zionism that causes anitsemitism. Its an unfortunate fact.

    grandbear
    grandbear
    5 years ago

    Another self hating jew gets to have her say in that great newspaper , a paper that never fails to print what these very assimilated jews have to say.

    qazxc
    qazxc
    5 years ago

    The true cost of Bibi walking around shnorring.

    The only pischon peh these Jew hating BDS supporters have is the fact that America underwrites our security costs. If we supported ourselves we could tell the NYT and the US Congress ‘thanks for your offer to share your opinion. We’ll let you know if and when we are interested.’

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    Well, if I understand what may Jewish poster on this site, many of them are opposed to Zionism.

    5 years ago

    Hey you dummy Michelle . By equating Palestinians to Jews like all columinsits at the failing nyt does you are both Anti semetic , liars and fake fake news reporters . Those filthy Muslims teaches kids in Camp that
    we need to kill others . Those filthy Muslims blow up Jews during a pesach Seder then dance in the street .And no these are not s few rouge individuals . These are the masses . They have blood in their eyes .

    Furthermore as proved by Arafat yimach shimo, they don’t want peace . They want us dead . Ehud Barak (whom Clinton mingled to help win ) offered that rasha everything under the sun . And he was the ” peaceful ” camp .

    It’s a fair argument to say that some holy Jews hold that Jews can not have a statehood. But that doesn’t equate them with filthy Palestinians ( some not all or even majority hold
    this . But the reba zya was a huge gadol)

    May Palestinians be smitten with yena machla ( and yamsar be spared any such pain )

    yamsar
    yamsar
    5 years ago

    Goldberg misses the point, and by doing so shows her own discomfort and self-hatred. Of course anti-Zionist sentiment and support for the BDS movement isn’t inherently anti-Semitic. It the double standard that is the problem. If you will boycott Israeli professors for Israeli policy, but not Palestinian professors for Palestinian policy then you have shown gross bias stemming no doubt from anti-Semitic viewpoints.

    HeshyEmes
    Active Member
    HeshyEmes
    5 years ago

    Ok, here we go again. 1. BDS is antisemitic because Israel is singled out when they are less discriminatory than over a 100 other countries. 2. Satmar Rebbe was a Tzaddik, but not a novi, and not infallible; he was wrong about Eretz Yisroel. The treifiner Medina is the beginning of Ikvissa Moshiach. And, even if he was right, B’Asher hu shum; it’s there already, and we dont have the ability to undo it; so what now? Hand over the keys to Hamas? Abboud? The UN? 3. Anti Zionism by any goy, or non Frum Yid, is definitely antisemitic (see #1 above). 4. Of the 56 or so Moslem countries in the world, none have anything resembling democracy. So if the Moslems treat their own to murder, torture, repression; etc., imagine what they would do to Jews if Israel became a single state (chas v’sholom) with a Moslem majority? Anyone who believes that Jews would be able to live, even as 2nd or 3rd class citizens, in the new Palestine is a Shoiteh!