Flotilla Crisis

I am certain that I am not the only person who left Sunday’s Solidarity Rally for Israel with a profound sense of unease. While I was not greeted with boos and jeers, like Peace Now’s David Pine (my speech elicited more confusion (“Wait, she’s a rabbi. Isn’t she on our side? What does she mean, ‘We can do better’?”), I was devastated by what I can only understand to be a tragic narrowing of the American Jewish heart and mind.

A crowd of more than 3,000 closed down Wilshire Boulevard in front of the Israeli Consulate in mid-city Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, June 6, to show support for Israel and listen to speeches by state, city and community leaders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering inviting the United Nations to help enforce the embargo of Gaza.