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Many might balk at the claim that political condemnation of Israel signals the presence of anti-Semitism. Of course, the relationship is by no means categorical--many Jews and Judeophiles themselves, for example, have vehemently attacked Tel Aviv's foreign policy in recent months. And the idea that anti-Semitism could warp people's views on political issues seem distant to most. It's easy to forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand...
...satirical revue entitled The Patriot, by the well-known Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, opened in Tel Aviv last week and quickly became the center of a national controversy. The play is about a cynical young Israeli hero who buys land in the West Bank as a real estate investment, kicks an Arab shoeshine boy to show that he lives up to the standards of anti-Arab Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and later tries to figure out how to leave wartorn, inflation-ridden Israel by obtaining an immigrant visa to the U.S. In the end, alas, he dies while...
...speaker, is one of the region's most outspoken critics of the state of Israel, and Leila Mean who left Palestine in 1947, have claimed that Israel is wholly and solely responsible for all the refugee problems of the Middle East. Mark Heller, who happens to come from Tel Aviv, is best known for espousing the somewhat exceptional view that the West Bank is irrelevant to Israel's security And Stanley Hoffman, who is a professor of French Civilization, has also been called in, perhaps to lend some prestige to the performance. The only common qualifying feature seems...
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Meanwhile, outraged public calls for a full-scale inquiry continued to mount. Some 400,000 protesters, roughly one-tenth of the country's population, jammed into Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square the day before the Yom Kippur holiday. Demands for the resignation of Begin and Sharon flooded in from newspaper editorialists, workers, housewives and even senior army officers...