Is it ‘anti-Arab’ to criticize an Arab supporter of terrorism? - by Stephen M. Flatow

On June 18, Knesset member Ayman Odeh took part in a conference in eastern Jerusalem sponsored by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, terrorist groups that have murdered and maimed many hundreds of Israelis—and Americans—since the 1960s.

Stephen M. Flatow..
JNS.org..
03 August '18..

Eight Jewish organizations this week signed a public statement accusing Israel of being, in effect, a racist state. Seven of them were left-of-center groups whose harsh criticism of Israel is old news. But one of them was the National Council of Jewish Women, a venerable American Jewish organization that ordinarily does not associate itself with such vile smears of the Jewish state.

The statement, distributed on July 31 as an Internet advertisement, accused “the Prime Minister and Government Ministers” of Israel of engaging in “shameful and dangerous incitement” against Israel’s Arab citizens.

That is an extremely serious charge. A regime that deliberately incites hatred against citizens of a particular ethnic and racial group is behaving on the moral level of some of the worst authoritarian regimes in memory.

So what’s the evidence? Where’s the proof that the Israeli government has degenerated into a mob of racist inciters?

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