Stanley Heller calls back on Israel, and Israel, in his latest op-ed urging Connecticut State Treasurer applicants to approve the withdrawal of all state investments in Israeli companies.
Notably absent from this alleged human rights defender is any call for divestment from China, which for years has been waging a ruthless genocide of the Uighur people, more than a million of whom now languish in concentration camps. Connecticut’s electric assistance program to ban Venezuela’s fuel oil purchases, a communist human rights crisis that has driven more than 15 percent of its population to flee its brutal regime.
No, Mr. Heller is only targeting Israel for divestment: the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, the only country in the region where gays and lesbians have full coverage of the law, and the only one where Jews, Christians, Muslims and others. all freedom of worship.
And why? Because of a small but tragic number of incidents in which Palestinian Arabs have been killed or injured in incidents in which Israel has been forced, as it has been thousands of times in its 74-year history, to take measures for its national security.
What movements become obligatory through this brutal truth, a truth that critics like M. Heller never acknowledges: For about a century, since at least 1928, and relentlessly since, Palestinian leaders ruthlessly propagated their other people to hate Jews, hate Jews who have converted into Israel in 1948, and dedicate massacres of Israelis. Thousands upon thousands of innocent Israelis have been killed or maimed as a result.
If Mr. Heller really cared about peace between Israel and the rest of the Palestinians, he could instead advocate divestment from the Palestinian Authority, which receives millions of American taxpayers each year, while continuing to indoctrinate its other peoples in genocide. hatred of Jews, and while spending millions of dollars in American taxes on rewards and pensions for those who heed the Palestinian Authority’s incessant exhortations to murder Israelis. of a two-state peace plan.
Heller’s misguided animosity toward Israel also ignores this basic reality: if the Palestinians laid down their arms today, there would be peace with Israel. But if Israel laid down its arms today, there would be no Israel.
Hank Kopel lives in Woodbridge.