Of course, Green Party political correctniks quickly condemned the Israeli Green Party as not being “green” enough because the Israelis have not taken a strong stand against the “Nazi,” “Apartheid,” Jewish state.
I think it is significant that a progressive group in Israel has taken such a sane and politically incorrect stand. I am similarly impressed by the recent statement issued by the Anglicans in Israel “against the February 6, 2006 decision of the General Synod of the Church of England to divest in Israel.” Like the Israeli Green Party, the Anglicans in Israel (Christ Church Jerusalem) are offended that they were not consulted or “allowed to respond.” On February 9, they described the Anglican divestment decision to be “one sided,” “anti-Semitic” and “naïve.”
The Anglicans in Israel have been in Jerusalem since the late eighteenth century. They stated that “the decision will do nothing to promote genuine reconciliation between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.”
I congratulate activists of conscience like Lorna Saltzman and Gary Acheatel, as well as the Israeli Green Party and the Anglicans in Israel. I wish them all Godspeed as they resist the Palestinianization of their communities. We need many more like them, for it is 1940 all over again and a strong and diverse resistance to the alliance of Western Marxists and totalitarian Islamists will prove essential in the war of civilizations that is hard upon us.