Is a Jewish Glasnost Coming to America?

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Is a Jewish Glasnost Coming to America?
Despite a Backlash, Many Jews Are Questioning Israel
By Tony Karon

First, a confession: It may tell me that I hate myself, but I can't
help loving Masada2000, the website maintained by militant right-wing
Zionist followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane. The reason I love it is its
D.I.R.T. list -- that's "Dense anti-Israel Repugnant Traitors" (also
published as the S.H.I.T. list of "Self-Hating and Israel-Threatening"
Jews). And that's not because I get a bigger entry than -- staying in
the Ks -- Henry Kissinger, Michael Kinsley, Naomi Klein, or Ted
Koppel. The Kahanists are a pretty flaky lot, counting everyone from
Woody Allen to present Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on their list of
Jewish traitors. But the habit of branding Jewish dissidents -- those
of us who reject the nationalist notion that as Jews, our fate is tied
to that of Israel, or the idea that our people's historic suffering
somehow exempts Israel from moral reproach for its abuses against
others -- as "self-haters"is not unfamiliar to me.

In 1981, my father went, as a delegate of the B'nai B'rith Jewish
service organization, to a meeting of the Cape Town chapter of the
Jewish Board of Deputies, the governing body of South Africa's Jewish
communal institutions. The topic of the meeting was "Anti-Semitism on
Campus." My father was pretty shocked and deeply embarrassed when
Exhibit A of this phenomenon turned out to be something I'd published
in a student newspaper condemning an Israeli raid on Lebanon....

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