To URJ: Israel is not the USA
Middle East • November 2009 • Views: 641
The Union for Reform Judaism will “focus on interfaith relations and the rights of Israeli Arabs at its biennial convention Nov. 4-8 in Toronto”.
There’s no doubt that there’s inequality in the treatment of the Arab minority in Israel. The average American, on hearing this, will think: it’s just like our own civil rights struggles. Israeli Arabs are like African-Americans, and the solution is just to force Israel, like Mississippi, to give them their rights.
It is nothing like that. Not at all.