Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) is leading the Democrat half of a Senate delegation to Israel, and she's boycotting the right-wing members of Benjamin Netanyahu's democratically-elected government.
A trifecta of hypocrisy:
1. Election denial: Rosen and the Democrats refuse to recognize the legitimacy of Israel's third-largest political coalition, chosen by the voters just a few weeks ago. And this after campaigning in 2022 on supposedly defending democracy.
2. Intolerance: What's so bad about meeting people who disagree with you? What's more likely to happen -- that they will agree with you more, or less? If you think it's "less," perhaps you and your views are the problem, not theirs?
3. Anti-Zionism: Support for Israel means supporting them even when they have a government you don't like (and I supported the previous left-wing government, even though I was critical of it). Boycotts are a terrible precedent.
Finally, a note: Rosen met with the Emir of Qatar in 2021 without complaint.
She's third from the left in the photo below, from a Qatari government website.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
