Israel Matzav: Leftist US Jews launch campaign to repeal 'racist' law of return

Leftist US Jews launch campaign to repeal 'racist' law of return

The law of return was passed by the Knesset in 1950. It granted automatic citizenship to anyone who wanted to move to Israel who could demonstrate that they had at least one Jewish grandparent (Hitler's definition of a Jew). Now, a group of Leftist American Jews is seeking to repeal the law of return. They have branded it as 'racist.'

[A] group of post-Zionist American Jews opposes even having the automatic right to become Israeli citizens by moving to Israel.

"The Law of Return creates an ethnically exclusive citizenship," Dr. Amy Kaplan, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-founder of the 'Breaking the Law of Return' campaign, told The Media Line. "Anyone who can claim a Jewish grandparent has this automatic right to 'return' to this land while Palestinians who were dispossessed of that land, in 1948 and 1967 and most recently in East Jerusalem, can't have that same right. We see this as unjust and want to repudiate that right."

She said she grew up in a Zionist family but that the Operation Cast Lead operation against Hamas terrorists “personally implicated [me] in the violence that it perpetrates in my name.” She did not explain her remark.

The Law of Return, passed in 1950, carried out the principle of the re-establishment of Israel as a Jewish State. The American Jews campaigning against it cite their drive as part of a public commitment to boycott Israel as part of the growing global opposition to Israeli policies, although many foreign elements also have called for the abolishment of Israel as a Jewish country.

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Bar-Ilan University political scientist Dr. Gerald Steinberg..., chairman of that NGO Monitor that exposes anti-Israel bias, told The Media Line that the Breaking the Law of Return campaign eventually seeks to make the existence of the State of Israel illegitimate.

"It's always easy to find a group of Jews on the fringes of society who make some noise and who are embraced by pro-Palestinian organizations," he said. "Their entire purpose is to provide more legitimacy to the Palestinian narrative which is focused on repealing the 1947 U.N. resolution which led to the establishment of the State of Israel.

Amy Kaplan's anti-Israel activism goes back long before Operation Cast Lead.

Anyone think 'self-hating Jew' would be an unfair label?

Israel Matzav: Leftist US Jews launch campaign to repeal 'racist' law of return