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There is nothing morally wrong with holding such complicitors accountable so long as the consequences imposed on them are proportional to their complicity.

But to single out the Jewish state of Israel as if it were the worst human rights offender is bigotry pure and simple, and those who sign the Chomsky-inspired petition should be ashamed of themselves and shamed by others. I

Even the false argument over why the United States “tilts” toward Israel while the rest of the world is even-handed is often tinged with a not-so-subtle anti-Semitism. “The Jews control America,” it is claimed, and that is why the United States is so pro-Israel.

law-and-order types whose tone was more in favor of a guilty verdict than an impartial jury.

made a remarkable decision to change the definition of refugee—only for purposes of defining who is an Arab refugee from Israel—to include any Arab who had lived in Israel for two years before leaving.41 Moreover, an Arab was counted as a refugee if he moved just a few miles from one part of Palestine to another—even if he returned to the village i

First, the state of Israel did not come into existence at the expense of either the Arabs or the Palestinians. The area partitioned for a Jewish state had a Jewish majority that had a right to self-determination vis-à-vis the British (and the Ottomans before them). The land in question was neither Arab nor Palestinian. It had passed from one empire