Prospects for Peace

New blog from the excellent Daniel Levy (Century Foundation, New America, etc.) includes much more coverage of the Israeli Labour Party leadership race than any sane person would want to read.

Comments

And here I had an appetite for even more. All well - sanity is so conformist.

Posted by Brian Ulrich | May 31, 2007 10:49 AM

What are Daniel Levy's concrete views? Does he support or enable keeping any Jewish settlers on the land conquered in 1967, even (I use the word euphemistically, as do its advocates) 'by negotiation'?

Frankly, the fact that he opposes - and the way that he opposes - the proposed British academic boycott of Israel is not a good sign. This is about the only vocal pressure being put on Israel at the moment, which of course is entirely tokenistic compared to the pressure that the Palestinians have been under since 1917, 1948, and 1967. We need much more open pressure on Israel.

Levy says that the boycott has no support among Jewish Israelis and the diaspora but of course a large part of the problem is that bigoted policies have too much support among Jewish Israelis and the diaspora and if we let those constraints drive policy we will be enabling and accommodating that bigotry. That approach has not worked.

Posted by otto | May 31, 2007 10:54 AM

Otto says:

"Frankly, the fact that he opposes - and the way that he opposes - the proposed British academic boycott of Israel is not a good sign."

Yawhol mein Otto.

I oppose the proposed antisemitic boycott.

If you for boycotting Israel you should be for boycotting almost every country in the world including Great Britain on the grounds that their human rights records is worse than that of Israel.

Posted by dubin | May 31, 2007 7:07 PM