Israel, a tipping point

My Turn

By Amy Brenner Mitz

Israel, a tipping point — Concord Monitor, 18 March 2023 — Concord Monitor · 18 March 2023

Transcribed from the clipping

“The recent unrestrained extreme violence of Jewish settlers just towards Palestinians, though unprecedented, is the result of decades of a pressure cooker fed by Israeli enabling. It’s abhorrent that not one of the perpetrators has yet been called to account for the crimes committed. There is plenty of blame to go around in Israel.… A world where way too many see Zionism as a dirty word, Jews as alien and enemy… A world where Zionism is simply misunderstood because demonizing Zionism remains a handy undercurrent for demonizing Jews. That’s not the Zionism of those protesting in Israel by the hundreds of thousands right now. These are the brave Israelis who are proud Zionists protesting against all Netanyahu represents. They are against settlement expansion. They believe in improving civil rights for all her citizens. They still believe in a two-state solution.… This also meant the unfortunate displacement of many Palestinian Arabs from what would soon be the new Jewish State of Israel… Zionism is not racism. It is not colonialism. Zionists are not religious zealots… Zionism is not Netanyahu, he is the antithesis.”

Photograph caption

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 16.

Context added by this archive

The last clipping in this section, and the sentence it answers is forty-eight years old. A cantor in the northern hills of New Hampshire writes against settler violence, against Netanyahu, and against the resolution, in that order, while a photograph of the judicial-overhaul protests runs above her.

Cite this item

"Israel, a tipping point," Concord Monitor, 18 March 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-076. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-076

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Israel broadens Palestinian offensiveConcord Monitor · 1 April 2002 · the same newspaper
Israeli minister defies leadership with visit to Jerusalem flash pointThe Philadelphia Inquirer · 4 January 2023 · the same year
Visit to Jerusalem holy site stokes angerLos Angeles Times · 4 January 2023 · the same year
Israel official’s site visit assailedNew Jersey Herald · 4 January 2023 · the same year

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