A retired academic in the United Kingdom is causing a ruckus after she refused to help a 13-year-old girl with a school project exclusively because the girl is Israeli.
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The attacks led to widespread condemnation globally as well as by Israelis and Palestinians, but as yet no one has been charged for the killings.
Israel says the violence stems from Palestinian incitement and incendiary videos on social media.
The EU will continue to solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict because “peace in the Middle East was an issue of interest to the entire worldwide community, as well as all Europeans”, she said.
Intolerant individuals like Levine have little appreciation of such nuance. As someone nominally committed to the free exchange of ideas and the pursuit of knowledge, you’d think Levine would realise that refusing to engage with your opponents helps no one – it only fuels greater animosity on both sides and stops you from reaching a constructive solution.
Israel’s government quickly acknowledged the attack was likely the work of Jewish extremists and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, condemned it as “an act of terrorism”. I didn’t invite her to email me.
“I made the decision that I have the choice not to waste my time on people who tread on the rights of other people”.
Prosecutor Uri Corb said Monday that the Abu Khdeir murder case was a stain on Israeli society. I never pushed extreme ideas to her head and I will never do that to anyone else.
Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said Levine meets the description of a “typical boycotter: blinkered, bigoted and thoroughly unattractive and unpleasant”. There are undoubtedly some among the nation’s 1.8 million Muslims who Israel can count on as real enemies, and a few who might be recruitable by Israel’s terrorist enemies, but Israeli authorities, while keeping an eye on the nation’s Muslim enclaves, don’t seem overly concerned.
The delay of the verdict for suspected ringleader Yosef Haim Ben David, 31, infuriated many Palestinians, who contend that Israel is too lenient on Jewish offenders while dealing harshly with Palestinians. Last week, the producer of a Tel Aviv music festival revealed that BDS activists threatened a number of the artists participating in the event, adding that four musicians said they received disturbing messages that left them “truly fearing for their lives”.
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“The American people share a very special bond with the people of Israel”, Woodall said last week.
