The Israeli Left Scrambles in the Wake of A Stunning Video

Steven Plaut

Israel has been rocked by sort of a Middle Eastern Bizarro version of the Dred Scott decision.  In that famous American Supreme Court case from1857, it was decided to send black escaped slave Dred Scott back to slavery in the South.  This triggered enormous public outrage and paved the way for Lincoln's election.  In the Israeli analogue, Jewish leftists are collaborating with the Palestinian Authority of the PLO and turning over to it innocent Arab Dred Scotts, who have done business with Jews, so that the PLO will torture and murder them.

The "star" of the story is a leftist extremist named Ezra Nawi, who has become something of a poster boy for the radical Left.  "Nawi" is a well-known and ordinarily distinguished surname among Jews who came from Iraq.  Most of these are patriotic Zionists, but a small minority of them were communists back in Iraq in the 1940s/1950s and have remained such.  A few of these Iraqi Jews continue to embrace communism, like the radical anti-Zionist sociologist from Tel Aviv University, Yehouda Shenhav....... 

Never before have leftist "human rights groups" been so dramatically unmasked.......

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My Take - This story about the positions and actions of leftists in Isreal is one that's fascinated me for years. No one hates or dispises human rights like a committed leftist.   They will sacrifice innocent human beings to their latest philosphy of the day, but scream to high heaven if someone calls them to account for their clearly criminal actions.  And if any governing authority has the termerity to execute criminals who've committed heinous crimes they become apoplectic. 

My question is now and has alwasy been this: What if they're successful in promoting the Islamist's dream of overthrowing of the nation of Isreal - what do they think will happen to them? And do they think all the violence, murder and mayhem that exists in Muslim controlled nations won't occur in Isreal if the overthrow they're working for comes into being? To be a leftist one has to be insane.

Oh, one more thing.  Do they think they could get away with this kind of insanity if they lived in Iran, or even in the PA?  If they did this kind of thing on Monday in these areas they would be executed by Tuesday.  Absolute insanity!