I have heard several accounts recently of Zionists who tried to open dialogue with anti-Zionists in different ways only to be rebuffed. The most shocking was a Jewish professor at Rutgers University who stood up during the Q&A part of a pro-Palestinian teach-in (or similar) to say he was willing to start a dialogue only to be shouted down and for students present to complain to university authorities that this was "violence" that should not have been allowed (because it made them feel "unsafe," naturally).
I have to say that I feel that justice or any other virtue is destructive in excess and that a moral person or movement has a balance of virtues, not one carried to an extreme.
By the way, would you prefer comments here or on TOI? I comment here because I don't always read comments on my TOI blog because the threads can get taken over by trolls. (Admittedly I have a safeguard in that my wife often reads the threads and tells me if there's something worth reading or responding to.)
I have heard several accounts recently of Zionists who tried to open dialogue with anti-Zionists in different ways only to be rebuffed. The most shocking was a Jewish professor at Rutgers University who stood up during the Q&A part of a pro-Palestinian teach-in (or similar) to say he was willing to start a dialogue only to be shouted down and for students present to complain to university authorities that this was "violence" that should not have been allowed (because it made them feel "unsafe," naturally).
I have to say that I feel that justice or any other virtue is destructive in excess and that a moral person or movement has a balance of virtues, not one carried to an extreme.
By the way, would you prefer comments here or on TOI? I comment here because I don't always read comments on my TOI blog because the threads can get taken over by trolls. (Admittedly I have a safeguard in that my wife often reads the threads and tells me if there's something worth reading or responding to.)