The charge that Jews are agents for foreign interests is as old, insidious, and slanderous as the blood libel. The disproportionate attention given to Israel — which already reeks of a hate-filled double standard — becomes an all-too-convenient cudgel with which to isolate and marginalize the Jews.

Long live Israel and her people.

Kind of duplicitous to argue that Israel's well-being and interests are the center of every Jew's life but then say hey how dare you conflate Jews with Israel.

Israel is the Jewish homeland a small minority of Jews are not Zionists ( most of them pop up here on DU it seems and a few thousand more )

Israel is very much a part of Jewish life in the USA and the world. What's to conflate?

To me, a Jew born in Brooklyn has one homeland, the United States.

Do you disagree?

To be "strangers" no matter where they were born because unfortunately not everyone thinks like you.

More Jews are leaving Paris this year for Israel than prior years because of dangerous environment for Jews there.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.614489


This is Israel's reisen d'etre

Even if they have lived in the US all their lives, and their parents have as well - many of them would consider Palestine to be their homeland.

Many Jewish Americans feel a similar relationship exists with them in connection to Israel.

I've heard Greek-Americans and Italian-Americans also refer to Greece or Italy as their homeland even though they are proud American citizens.

being one's true homeland and having conflicting loyalties being what exactly? It seems that people who claim Israel is the homeland and true home of most Jews are directly feeding the dual loyalty canard?

Yet, many of them refer to Italy as their homeland and speak fondly of their affinity for and connection to that country.

There are some Jewish Americans who view Israel in a similar way. That is to say, that is a country they feel connected to and have affinity for in much the same way Italian-American, Indian-American, or Greek-American folks do (to name a few of many possible examples).

Ask an Italian-American where there homeland is, and they'll say "Staten Island" or "Bensonhurst"--not Sicily.

Of course, it's just possible that I've missed the enormous influence of the other AIPAC--the American Italian Public Affairs Committee, and the amount of aid, and the public shit fits that get thrown whenever there's a rift between the US and Italy, or Berlusconi's speech before a joint session of Congress.


The only other possible analog is Cuban ex-pats in Florida, but that is not the example you would want to cite for obvious reasons.

Some would say Sicily.

Maybe a better example - Americans of Indian descent. Some will identify India as their homeland even though they are very much Americans and are part of a family who have been living here for generations.

I would actually argue that many Italian and Greek Americans would say the same thing. Ditto for some Chinese and Korean Americans. Their connection to a different homeland runs deep in many of those communities.

I would think that if Italian-Americans perceived that Italy was under threat from its neighbors, was unrecognized by much of the international community and whatnot, that they might be more keen to create a lobbying group in the US to encourage support for that relationship.

is being obvious?

anti-semetic when anti-semetic means anti jew?

Cuz, Palestinians are "semites" too.

I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

a pox on the house of israeli politicians & others there who are in control who think it's ok to kill innocents in their endless quest for land.

That Israel is the Jewish Homeland?

What you talking about? The overwhelming majority of Jews of the world are proud Zionists.

However supporting Israel and Zionism should not be conflated with supporting the current Israeli government .