The Already ‘Messy Break-Up’ of American Jews Over Israel is Getting Messier
- The Already ‘Messy Break-Up’ of American Jews Over Israel is Getting Messier
by https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
An alliance of far-right groups including Jewish Power, a party so extreme that even unflinching supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in the US cannot stomach, are poised to enter Israel’s parliament, if exit polls for the latest General Election are to be believed. Ideological heirs of Meir Kahane, who openly advocated expelling all Palestinians from historic Palestine between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea – what he called “the Land of Israel” — are likely to be in a position for a ministerial spot in a potential coalition government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has called Jewish Power, a party of ultranationalist extremists, “racist and reprehensible”. The alliance leader, Bezalel Smotrich, once suggested segregated maternity wards in hospitals so that Jewish Israeli women would not have to give birth next to Palestinian Israeli women.
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Should the election result be as predicted, it will place a further wedge between an Israeli society which mainstreams the Jewish supremacist ideology of “Kahanism” and progressive American Jews who are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Zionist state and question the wisdom of unconditional support for Israel. This growing tension is what the deputy editor of the New York Times described as the “messy break-up” between American Jews and Israeli Jews. The break-up looks to be getting messier.
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The signs of this schism are there for all to see. Take Donald Trump approval ratings, for example. Israelis loved the former US president more than any other people; 70 per cent backed him. “Look at Trump and you’ll see the Israelis,” said Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy while pointing out that the rest of the world was fed up with the 74 year old, the only US president to be impeached twice.
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“The explanation for Trump’s rising popularity in Israel goes much deeper,” Levy explained as he dismissed the notion that Israeli Jews loved Trump because of his many gifts to the Zionist state. “Its roots are much more disturbing. Israel admires Trump not despite his many repellent shortcomings but because of them. Trump is the embodiment of everything that’s bad and ugly about Israel while normalising and whitewashing them for us. Look at him and you’ll see ourselves. This is who we are, or who we’d like to be.”
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