Has he crossed the Rubicon? And if he has, has he done so only intellectually or also mentally? Is it already possible to number Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among the good guys? And how will we know?
Criticism of Israel is not in itself anti-Semitic, a new protocol on combating anti-Semitism says. The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism on Tuesday ratified the Ottawa Protocol, a series of measures that seeks to end hateful propaganda online and in places such as university campuses. Following a two-day meeting in the Canadian capital, experts and politicians from 50 countries said the coalition aims to stop the growth in the kind of criticism of Israel it says is increasingly a vehicle for anti-Semitism.
Writing in the Vatican\’s official newspaper, the head of Italy\’s Jewish community criticized Vatican policy but called for strengthened Catholic-Jewish ties. Renzo Gattegna, president of the umbrella Union of Italian Jewish Communities wrote in an Op-Ed published Wednesday that as a step toward \”continuing with the initiatives dedicated to reciprocal understanding and friendship,\” it would be \”useful, necessary and certainly appreciated\” for the Vatican to openly and forcefully renounce \”any manifestation of intent aimed at the conversion of the Jews.\”
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.