Democratic Party legislators in Texas have decided to leave the state to deny the Republican majority a quorum necessary to pass new bills on voting.
How ironic: denying a legislative vote, ostensibly to defend the right to vote.
This behavior is fundamentally anti-democratic, and we have seen it before -- in Texas in 2003, in Wisconsin in 2011, and elsewhere. The Madison "fleebaggers" -- a play on the pejorative term used by Democrats (and CNN) to describe the Tea Party movement -- upped the ante by bringing masses of demonstrators to the state capitol for weeks. Some of the left-wing protesters occupied the building, and damaged it. It was the first "insurrection" of the type that would later be repeated by left-wing activists in other state capitols -- and eventually by the January 6 rioters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
If invading a legislative building to force (or prevent) a particular result is an insurrection, then leaving a legislative building for that same purpose is just as much an insurrection. Call it an "out-surrection." The movement is opposite, but the goal is the same: to use extra-legal means to exercise power.
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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 ...
