We’re American Jewish Historians. This Is Why We’ve Left Zionism Behind

[Israeli]

6. Fascinating follow up to your OP Little Tich.....

There has been a twitter war going on since it was published .

The religious right wing blog Israellycool posted some of the details yesterday , see :

http://www.israellycool.com/2016/08/02/haaretz-ripped-for-hating-on-jews/

Now our Gideon has responded to Jeffrey Goldberg,....... great read , see :

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.735126

According to Goldberg, Haaretz is doing something unforgiveable: it’s shattering his fantasy. Because of an op-ed piece in which two American-Jewish historians explain why they’ve abandoned Zionism, as well as a piece of my own (“Yes, Israel is an evil state,” July 31), the liberal Goldberg has decided he’s had enough of Haaretz. He tweeted to his 107,000 Twitter followers that these sort of pieces make him sick. Neo-Nazis, he said, have been distributing my op-ed, so he was going to have to “take a break” from Haaretz.

I would love to know who those neo-Nazis are. After all, neo-Nazis and the radical right are now some of Israel’s best friends. Did Goldberg mean to say that BDS advocates are neo-Nazis? And besides, I’m not sure I understand. What, the pieces are true, but it’s only the way they’re used that angers Goldberg? Should they not be published because neo-Nazis disseminate them? Or are the articles not actually true?

Behind this lies the greatest boorishness of all: the rather primitive idea that Israel’s critics are the ones giving it a bad name, not its actions and policies. That criticism of Israel was born of articles in Haaretz, not the crimes of the occupation. The video footage released Tuesday showing a Border Policeman throwing the bike of a terrified Palestinian girl into the bushes in Hebron did more damage to Israel than all of my pieces in Haaretz combined.

Goldberg probably thought it should never have been posted, because of the neo-Nazis.