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Haaretz columnist Yossi Klein on Friday doubled down on opinions he set out in a piece published earlier this week that caused a storm, in which he claimed that the religious Zionist movement is more dangerous than Hezbollah.

In the opinion piece, published Wednesday and titled in Hebrew Our self-righteous elite, Klein wrote: The national religious are dangerous. More dangerous than Hezbollah, more than drivers in car-ramming attacks or girls with scissors (referring to a stabbing terror attack by a Palestinian teenage girl). The Arabs can be neutralized, but they cannot. He went on: What do they want? To rule the country and cleanse it of Arabs.

The article was condemned by President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many of his coalition partners, including members of the religious Zionist Jewish Home party. Prominent opposition lawmakers condemned the op-ed as well, and accused Klein of harming the Israeli left.

Defending his assertions in a TV interview, Klein said his comparison to Hezbollah was intended to highlight that religious Zionism has become a political body, and that combining politics with religion is dangerous no less than Hezbollah.

When his Channel 2 interviewer, Amnon Abramovich, told Klein that Hezbollah should not be in your arsenal when he writes, Klein said criticizing his piece because of that comparison was missing the issue.

The issue is us what happens among us and what is convenient for us to overlook, Klein said.

After being accused by Abramovich of committing the sin of generalization, and being confronted with a list of religious-Zionist thinkers who were moderate and promoted dialogue, Klein said any listing of the religious Zionist group should also include the Jewish underground, a Jewish terror group active in the 1980s, and Yigal Amir, who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

Every generalization by its nature, Klein said, misses the individuals. I refer to religious Zionism as a political body, he said, adding that naturally, when you examine individuals in the political camp, you will find a range of opinions.

If you want to influence people, retorted Abramovich, you must not use ear splitting expressions.

Klein claimed that the Israeli right-wing allows itself to act in ways that are forbidden to the left-wing. The justice minister (Ayelet Shaked of Jewish Home) said my piece was anti-Semitic, he said. She didnt even read it. She cant point to anything anti-Semitic about it. She just said it. You know, you taint something you dislike with an adjective like anti-Semitic, and thats it, you did your part. Or incitement. What is inciting in this piece?

Defending his choices of wording, Klein said: I use the language that is acceptable today. This language where the right-wing generalizes and the left-wing generalizes, this is apparently the language that has become acceptable here.

I am not the one who began with name-calling, Klein said. It is the current government that began with name-calling. It is the government that generalizes about the left and calls us traitors. It is he who whispered in the ear of Rabbi Kaduri that the left-wingers forgot what it means to be Jews.

Klein was referring to a comment made by Netanyahu in the late 1990s when he visited Kaduri, who was considered an influential voice among Israels religious electorate.

Abramovich said the articles opening lines, which featured the Hezbollah reference, are the heart of its problems, to which Klein answered: You know what? Take these first three lines, excise them and throw them away. Do you agree with the rest?

Klein added: I cannot ignore the fact that this op-ed presents me in a light that is not true. I see myself as patriotic. Ill tell you more: I see myself as more patriotic than them, because I genuinely believe the things that they are doing and everyone who criticizes them is labeled as anti-patriotic or even anti-Semitic these things hurt me, hurt this country, this country which is my homeland.

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President Donald Trumps missile strike against Syria inaugurates a new chapter in the long and controversial history of American responsesand sometimes nonresponsesto mass murder around the world.

Although the killing of Syrian civilians by President Bashar al-Assads regime does not technically constitute genocidewhich the United Nationsdefined in 1948as the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as suchthere is no doubt Assad has committed heinous and large-scale war crimes.

Trumps decision to order missile strikes on Syria was primarily motivated by humanitarian concerns over Assads latest chemical attack on Syrian civilians, although Trump also cited the danger to U.S. interests posed by chemical weapons proliferation.

How does Trumps action compare to past U.S. responses to genocide? Here is a sampling:

Islamic State

Under congressional pressure in 2015, the Obama administration belatedly declared that the atrocities committed by the Islamic State terror group against Yazidis, Christians and other non-Muslim minorities in Syria and Iraq constitute genocide. The administrations decision did not, however, result in any change in the U.S. policy of limited air strikes against Islamic State.

Libya

In response to attacks on Libyan civilians by Muammar Gaddafi in early 2011, President Barack Obama authorized U.S. participation with its allies in air and naval strikes against the Libyan leader. Citing the weak international response to Bosnia, Obama said intervention in Libya was necessary to prevent a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. Gaddafi was killed and his regime was overthrown.

Darfur

President George W. Bush saw no compelling reason to intervene in the Sudanese governments mass murder of an estimated 500,000 non-Arab civilians in the Darfur region, which began in 2003. The Bush administration also initially resisted congressional calls to categorize the killing as genocide. President Obama continued the policy of non-intervention in Darfur. The International Criminal Court in 2009 indicted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges, but the Obama administration declined to seek his arrest or to establish a no-fly zone over Sudan, despite ongoing atrocities.

Rwanda

The Clinton administration was aware, in real time, of the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis by Hutu death squads in Rwanda in early 1994. Susan Rice, then director of African Affairs for the National Security Council, opposed U.S. intervention because of its possible effect on the November [congressional] elections. At the urging of then-U.N. ambassador Madeleine Albright, the U.S. supported withdrawal of international peacekeepers in Rwanda who were thought to be in danger. Ironically, Albright later co-chaired the Genocide Prevention Task Force for the Obama administration.

Bosnia

Legal scholars adopted the term ethnic cleansing to characterize the widespread atrocities in the Balkans war of 1992-1995, which were carried out primarily by Serbs against Muslims. President Bill Clinton initially resisted U.S. intervention, but in response to a July 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, Clinton authorized U.S. participation in NATO airstrikes. The bombing campaign resulted in the warring parties negotiating an end to the conflict.

Cambodia

In the wake of the unpopular Vietnam War, Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter declined to intervene when the newly victorious communist regime in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, carried out the mass murder of an estimated 2 million civilians (many of whom were targeted as ethnic and religious minorities) from 1975-1979.

The Holocaust

The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration rejected requests to bomb the Auschwitz death camp or the railway lines leading to it, claiming such action would require diverting American planes from battle zones. In reality, U.S. planes in 1944 repeatedly bombed German synthetic oil fields adjacent to Auschwitz, some of them less than five miles from the gas chambers. The real reason the administration declined to take such military action was its fearas one senior State Department official put itof the danger that the German government might agree to turn over to the United States and to Great Britain a large number of Jewish refugees.

The U.S. bombing of Budapest in the summer of 1944, although unrelated to the mass killing of the Jews, did unintentionally affect the murder process. Hungarian officials intercepted messages from local Jews pleading for U.S. military intervention, and mistakenly concluded that the U.S. strikes on Budapest were in response to the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. As a result, Hungary belatedly halted its cooperation with the deportations, bringing them to a halt.

Armenia

The idea of U.S. intervention against atrocities abroad first arose during Turkeys World War I-era slaughter of more than 1 million Armenians. Then-former President Theodore Roosevelt urged declaring war on Turkey. The failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense, he warned in 1918.

Roosevelts plea attracted few supporters. To this day, successive presidents have declined to publicly acknowledge that the killings constituted genocide, over fear of upsetting U.S.-Turkey relations. The sensitivity of the issue was further illustrated by the Obama administrations refusal, for more than a year, to display a hand-woven rug sent by Armenian orphans to the White House in 1925 in appreciation for Americas postwar aid.

Looking ahead

This months commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) will be the occasion for much discussion concerning the contrast between Americas traditionally meager response to genocide, and the dramatic U.S. action in Syria. Was the missile attack a one-time gesture, or does it represent a substantive change in American policy? Time will tell.

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 16 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history.

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has volunteered to offer training sessions focused on Holocaust education to White House spokesman Sean Spicer, whose comparison of Syrian President Bashar al-Assadto Adolf Hitler on Tuesday sparked an uproar.

During the daily White House press briefing, Spicer incorrectly claimed on Tuesday that Hitler didnt use chemical weapons during World War II. He also referred to concentration camps as Holocaust Centers. Spicer later apologized for his gaffes.

Because it was still Passover when he made those comments, some Jews didnt see them until they turned on their TVs and phones the following evening on Wednesday.

Your comparisons between Assad and Hitler were not only historically inaccurate but they also were inappropriate and offensive, said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a letter to Spicer Thursday.

For decades, the ADL has provided trainings about the Nazi atrocities and the Holocaust to hundreds of thousands of students, educators and law enforcement officials, Greenblatt said. He said the programs provide historical context about how the Holocaust occurred and prompt critical thinking.

ADL would be happy to conduct one of these trainings at your convenience for you, your staff, and anyone at the White House who may need to learn more about the Holocaust, he said. We know you are very busy, but we believe a few hours learning this history will help you understand where you went wrong and prevent you from making these mistakes in the future.

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Two days after White House press secretary Sean Spicer was accused of making a misleading statement about Hitler's use of chemical weapons, the Anti-Defamation League has offered to help educate him on the Holocaust.

During Tuesday's White House press briefing, Spicer compared Adolf Hitler to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after the latter was accused of attacking his own people with chemical weapons last week.

Spicer at first said Hitler never used chemical weapons on his own people, which he later clarified to mean Hitler never attacked his own people via chemical bombs dropped from airplanes which Assad was accused of doing.

The Anti-Defamation League responded by sending Spicer a letter that offered to teach him and other White House staffers about the atrocities of World War II.

"While you have apologized, this week's incident as well as others (notably, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement omitting Jews and your vociferous defense of it), have exposed a serious gap in your knowledge of the Holocaust, its impact, and the lessons we can learn from it," the letter from ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt reads.

"We have conducted trainings for more than 130,000 law enforcement professionals and more than 35,447 educators, reaching more than 1,000,000 students," Greenblatt wrote.

"ADL would be happy to conduct one of these trainings at your convenience for you, your staff, and anyone at the White House who may need to learn more about the Holocaust."

Millions of Jews died during the Holocaust, which included the use of gas chambers.

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Larry Derfner moved to Israel in 1985, in his early 30s, and was a liberal Zionist until the final months of 2008. Then, he changed the opinions of a lifetime. His just-published memoir, No Country for Jewish Liberals, is a devastating critique of the views he once held. His change of heart eventually got him fired in 2011 from his job as a prominent columnist at the Jerusalem Post.

The first part of our review summarized some of his striking arguments. Here, we will look at the more personal side of his intellectual odyssey. Derfner has an engaging, informal style and a modest manner, which, along with his moral courage, make this book a page-turner.

Derfners life before Israel does not fit easily into a stereotype. He is from a lower middle-class Los Angeles background, the son of Holocaust survivors. But his father had been a Communist in Europe, and surprised Derfner one day in 1978 by staging a one-man demonstration outside the local Israeli consulate against the invasion of South Lebanon. He tossed a cardboard placard on the dining room table, Derfner writes. I remember it said either Israel = Nazi Germany or Begin = Hitler.

Derfner went to Israel in 1985 mainly to work as a journalist, planning to stay only a year or two. He explains that the move had nothing whatsoever to do with Zionism, or my Jewish identity, or, certainly anti-Semitism in America. I could count on one hand the number of times Id heard anti-Semitic remarks, and Id never let them pass.

But once in Israel, he settled in, making a name for himself as a reporter, marrying and raising two sons. He did his first stint in the military at age 38, which made him uneasy at seeing the occupation close up, but he remained a orthodox liberal Zionist, a view reinforced during the first Gulf War when his family had to take refuge from Saddam Husseins Scud missile attacks while Palestinians celebrated. He writes, Today I hold no grudges against the Palestinians for cheering the Scuds that had us quaking in our gas masks. When you treat people like inferior beings, theyre going to want revenge, and wed been treating the Palestinians like inferior beings for a very long time.

So what happened in October 2008 to transform Larry Derfner, by then a man in his mid-50s? The triggering event was not in itself dramatic:

. . . Israel refused to allow a delegation of western doctors, nurses, and psychiatrists to cross into Gaza for a mental health conference, and also refused, before relenting under pressure, to allow a protest boat carrying medical supplies to dock at the Gaza strip.

Until then, Derfner had believed the Israeli governments claim that it was blockading Gaza for security reasons.

But barring the doctors delegation and the peace flotilla from entering Gaza was so indefensible, so wanton, that it threw Israels whole policy toward the Strip into doubt. . . That was the moment when I began to stop seeing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1967 as one in which both sides shared the guilt, and started seeing it more and more as one of oppressor and oppressed, of Israel being guilty and the Palestinians innocent.

Derfners changing view was strengthened two months later, when Israel attacked Gaza in Operation Cast Lead, killing 1400 people, including 300 children. As a good reporter, he and a photographer visited Umm el-Fahm, the most politically radical Israeli Palestinian town, to gauge reaction there. He explains that most Israeli Jews would regard their visit as suicidal. He adds, Two out of three Israeli Jews wont even drive into an Israeli Arab town in normal times.

Instead, Derfner and his colleague were treated respectfully, although the Palestinian Israelis were understandably in great pain over the attack on Gaza.

That day was a clear illustration of something Ive learned from writing dozens of stories about Israeli Arabs and thousands about Israeli Jews; the former are more than ready to live in peace with the latter, and the latter dont know it.

Larry Derfners views remain not entirely predictable, which adds interest to his personal story. It may be surprising to learn, for instance, that he praises the late prime minister Ariel Sharon for political courage, (for pushing successfully over two years to forcibly remove Jewish settler/colonists from inside Gaza).

He also mentions one more very important thing that Israel has given me and for which Im most grateful: a way to remain Jewish and pass it on to my children. He feels that if he had stayed in America, Having no feeling at all for religion and hardly any for Israel, my Jewishness would have continued being a sentimental thing that lived off a glorious past but had no future. (Derfner clearly thinks he can easily remain Jewish after a genuine 2-state solution that also ends anti-Palestinian discrimination within Israel.)

But on balance, Derfner is not optimistic. He is clear; Israel is now a solidly and overwhelmingly right-wing nation:

. . . despite what sentimental liberals like to believe, its not the big bad Israeli leaders who drag the peace-loving public to battle; its much closer to being the other way around.

He advocates Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions as the only way to force change, a courageous stand that might be violating Israeli law. But if Israel continues down the same path, he is already encouraging his two sons to leave the country.

This is the second part of a two-part review. The first part appeared last week.

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Hezbollah members carry mock rockets next to a poster of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah [FIle]. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Politicians from across the political spectrum condemned the left-wing Haaretz newspaper on Thursday for running an op-ed article saying religious Zionists are more dangerous than Hezbollah, hit-and-run drivers, or girls with scissors.

The article by veteran journalist Yossi Klein accused religious Zionists of wanting to cleanse Israel of Arabs and take over the country.

Haaretz has long been a platform for haters of Israel, but printing the article by Yossi Klein, a frustrated, irrelevant journalist who failed as an editor, crosses all redlines, said Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.

President Reuven Rivlin said Kleins words were slander that reveals deep hatred. He said religious Zionism is better and more deeply rooted than all its critics.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the article shameful and delusional. He said the newspaper had lost it completely, while religious Zionists are the salt of the Earth and serve Israel in the IDF and national service.

It was not the first time Netanyahu has blasted Haaretz. In January 2012, he was quoted saying that Israels two main enemies were The New York Times and Haaretz.

Liberman called upon the citizens of Israel to immediately stop purchasing and reading Haaretz, which has dropped in circulation in recent years, becoming Israels sixth-largest circulation Hebrew daily after Israel Hayom, Yediot Aharonot, Calcalist, Maariv and Globes, according to TGI ratings that were printed in Haaretz.

Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid mocked Liberman, noting that in April 2016, he promised that he would assassinate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh within 48 hours if Haniyeh did not return the bodies of Israeli soldiers. Haniyeh is alive and well and recently was promoted, but the bodies have not been returned.

If we can learn from the dramatic advancement of Ismail Haniyeh since the false threats of Liberman, we can soon expect a rise in subscriptions to Haaretz, Ravid wrote on Twitter, advising the defense minister to continue.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid called on Klein to apologize, as did Hagit Rein, mother of Bnaya Rein, a religious Zionist IDF soldier who was killed by Hezbollah in the Second Lebanon War. But Klein defended his opinion in an Army Radio interview, saying that they were his views and not those of the newspaper.

Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken said he could not understand the reactions to the article. He called the reactions poisonous.

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rayhanania RAY HANANIA Columnist

Ray Hanania is an award winning political columnist and author. He covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992. Hanania began writing in 1975 when he published The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published The National Arab American Times newspaper which was distributed through 12,500 Middle East food stores in 48 American States (2004-2007).

Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues for the Arab News in Saudi Arabia at http://www.ArabNews.com, and for TheArabDailyNews.com, and TheDailyHookah.com.

Palestinian, American Arab and Christian, Hananias parents originate from Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named Best Ethnic American Columnist by the New American Media;In 2009, he received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. Hanania has also received two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild, and in 1990 was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.

His wife and son are Jewish and he performs standup comedy lampooning Arab-Jewish relations, advocating for peace based on non-violence, mutual recognition and Two-States.

His Facebook Page is Facebook.com/rghanania

Email him at: RGHanania@gmail.com

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is offering to host a Holocaust education course for Sean Spicer and his staff after the White House press secretary wrongly claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II.

While you have apologized, this weeks incident as well as others (notably the International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement omitting Jews and your vociferous defense of it), have exposed a serious gap in your knowledge of the Holocaust, its impact and the lessons we can learn from it, ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt wrote in a letter to SpicerThursday.

.@ADL_National has sent a letter to Sean Spicer offering to hold a Holocaust education training session for Spicer and W.H. staffers. pic.twitter.com/hrFsJe3jg6

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

We did not use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who did not even sink to using chemical weapons, Spicer said during hisTuesdaypress briefing.

While Hitler is believed not to have used chemical weapons on the battlefield, the Nazis used Zyklon B and other types of poison in gas chambers to kill millions of Jews in concentration camps.

The spokesman apologized for his statement after stumbling over multiple attempts to clarify it.

Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the Holocaust, he said during an interview on CNN. For that I apologize, it was a mistake to do that.

Spicer said he knew that gas chambers were used to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust.

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Steve Ginsberg, regional director of the Connecticut Anti-Defamation League, will be the keynote speaker at Stanwich Schools commencement ceremony on June 1.

Steve Ginsberg, regional director of the Connecticut Anti-Defamation League, will be the keynote speaker at Stanwich Schools commencement ceremony on June 1.

Anti-Defamation League leader will be Stanwichs commencement speaker

GREENWICH An advocate for civil rights and tolerance, Steve Ginsburg, regional director of the Connecticut Anti-Defamation League, will be the keynote speaker at Stanwich Schools commencement ceremony on June 1.

Im so honored to be a part of the commencement exercises at a school that has elevated the communitys understanding of excellence in education, Ginsburg said. Stanwich has been unparalleled in its positive impact on the lives of its students and families, and Im excited to speak to, and meet with, its seniors at such an important juncture in their lives.

Ginsberg oversees the Leagues efforts to monitor and expose extremist groups, promote civil rights and build bridges of understanding among diverse groups within the region.

He joined the Anti-Defamation League after serving as principal at Mission Measurement, a firm that works with foundations, corporations and nonprofits to predict and maximize their effectiveness and return on investment. Prior to that, he was director of development for the ADLs Greater Chicago/Upper Midwest Region, one of the Leagues largest offices.

An experienced lawyer, Ginsberg was Chief Legal Counsel to the Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois, and helped run the American Bar Association Rule of Law reform project in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the late 1990s. He is a resident of Westport, Conn. and a graduate of Duke University and Georgetown University Law Center.

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