"[T]aking concrete action" for what? At some point political principles - like the difference between ending ethnocratic rule and preserving it - matter. There's nothing virtuous about action in and of itself.
Beinart's proposal aims, in his won words, to preempt "the right of millions of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes — an agenda that, if fulfilled, could dismantle Israel as a Jewish state," he ominously warns. Those who support his strategy and its avowed goals place themselves in flat opposition to Palestinian rights and collective aspirations and, in fact, in open support of an objectively racist program. The more things change, the more they stay the same. "I love [Palestinian refugees], as long as they don't move next door ..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]>wrote: I'm less interested in whether Beinart passes a political purity test > than in whether his advocacy leads more Jews to consider taking > concrete action. If one member of one synagogue takes one action to > put the idea of boycotting Ahava cosmetics in front of their community > as a result of Beinart's advocacy, I would consider that a net plus. > -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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