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When right-wing pro-Israel fanatics frequently sent me death threats, physically attacked my house and painted on the gates statements about me being a Nazi or a self-hating Jew, and called in bomb threats to Tikkun, the magazine I edit, there was no attention given to this by the media, no cries of our civilization depends on freedom of the press or demands to hunt down those involved (the FBI and police received our complaints, but never reported back to us about what they were doing to protect us or find the assailants). Nor was the mainstream or Jewish media particularly concerned about Western civilization being destroyed or freedom of thought and association undermined when various universities denied tenure to professors who had made statements critical of Israel, or when the Hillel association, which operates a chain of student-oriented Hillel Houses on college campuses, decided to ban from their premises any Jews who were part of Jewish Voices for Peace. Nor was the media much interested in a bomb that went off outside the NAACPs Colorado Springs headquarters the same day as they were highlighting the attack in Paris. Colorado Springs is home to some of the most extreme right-wing activists. It was a balding white man who was seen setting the bomb, some reports claim, and so the media described it as an act of a troubled lone individual, rather than as a white right wing Christian fundamentalist terrorist. Few Americans have even heard of this incident.--Rabbi Michael Lerner
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:49:50 +0000

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