Mahmoud Abbas’s Desperate Boycott Strategy
Endorsing BDS won’t help the Palestinian cause.
February 28, 2018
Two American vice-presidents and the Jewish yearning to return to the land of Israel.
Welcoming Vice-President Mike Pence to the Knesset, both Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition leader Isaac Herzog cited a statement made by America’s first vice-president, John Adams, in 1819: “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.” Meir Soloveichik comments on the quotation, its context, and its meaning:
Endorsing BDS won’t help the Palestinian cause.
And allows the slaughter to continue.
Two American vice-presidents and the Jewish yearning to return to the land of Israel.
For some time, Jews assumed it would be rebuilt imminently.
Smug secularism, curiosity, and the Enlightenment.
Welcoming Vice-President Mike Pence to the Knesset, both Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition leader Isaac Herzog cited a statement made by America’s first vice-president, John Adams, in 1819: “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.” Meir Soloveichik comments on the quotation, its context, and its meaning:
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