This is an abbreviated newsletter, composed of odds and ends. For our Zoom call for paid subscribers this Friday at Noon ET, we’ll be joined by two terrific thinkers, Sam Bahour and Bernard Avishai, who have come together to promote the idea of an Israeli-Palestinian confederation. Here’s the
Ralph Seliger and Todd Gitlin could at least be open about the fact that they do not share the 3 declared goals of the BDS movement.
Seliger decries Barghouti's lack of "consistency" in saying that "diaspora Palestinians would have to be included in any Palestinian referendum on peace", but "Jews don’t exist as a nation or people internationally." Palestinians are DEFINED as people who come from within the borders of what was called Palestine under the British Mandate. Since that is the exact territory under dispute, of course Palestinians who have been forcibly prevented from living in it should be allowed a say over its future. There's no reason why Jews who are not Israeli citizens and have never lived in Palestine should have any say over it.
Ralph Seliger and Todd Gitlin could at least be open about the fact that they do not share the 3 declared goals of the BDS movement.
Seliger decries Barghouti's lack of "consistency" in saying that "diaspora Palestinians would have to be included in any Palestinian referendum on peace", but "Jews don’t exist as a nation or people internationally." Palestinians are DEFINED as people who come from within the borders of what was called Palestine under the British Mandate. Since that is the exact territory under dispute, of course Palestinians who have been forcibly prevented from living in it should be allowed a say over its future. There's no reason why Jews who are not Israeli citizens and have never lived in Palestine should have any say over it.