Quote of the Day

I am not anti-Israeli, I am not anti-Semitic. I supported the state of Israel. In the forty years I have known the state of Israel, and sometimes had a home there, I’ve seen it completely changed. It changed from a left-wing socially directed country to an extreme right-wing regime that is behaving in the most criminal fashion and . . . unscrupulously using the Holocaust to justify what [it is] doing. . . . I [stand for and] with human rights, whether they are Israeli, gay, women, black, whatever they are. I am not anti-Israel I am not anti-Semitic but I am pro human rights for every human.

– David Norris
Excerpted from "This Speech About Gaza by an Irish Senator
is Being Watched All Over the World"
Addicting Info
August 8, 2014

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
For Some Jews, Israel's Treatment of Palestinians is Yet Another Jewish Tragedy
Something to Think About – July 18, 2014
"We Will Come Together in Our Pain"

Related Off-site Links:
Why Israel is Its Own Worst Enemy – Gideon Levy (CNN, August 8, 2014).
Interview with Sociologist Eva Illouz: "The Real Danger to Israel Comes from Within" – Julia Amalia Heyer (Spiegel, August 5, 2014).
How Europe's Jews Lost Their Humanity in Gaza – Gilad Isaacs (972mag, August 1, 2014).
"Concentrate" and "Exterminate": Israel Parliament Deputy Speaker’s Gaza Genocide Plan – Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada, August 6, 2014).
Israel Has Broken My Heart: I’m a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel – Rabbi Michael Lerner (Salon, August 4, 2014).
Israel’s Supporters Try to Come to Terms with the Killing of Children in Gaza – Robert Mackey (New York Times, August 7, 2014).
Against the War: The Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name in Israel – Giles Fraser (The Guardian, August 6, 2014).
The Death of Sympathy: How Israel’s Hawks Intimidated and Silenced the Last Remnants of the Anti-war Left – Gregg Carlstrom (Foreign Policy, August 5, 2014).
Gaza in Cease-fire: What Palestinians Think of Hamas Now and What That Means – William Saletan (Slate, August 6, 2014).
Political Will is the Obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian Peace – Mel Gurtov (Peace Voice, August 6, 2014).
American Jews and Israel: The Time to Speak Out on Gaza is Now – Ruth Margalit (Slate, August 11, 2014).