Once again Alan Dershowitz crosses the line in his attempts to villify members of his own community as "traitors" (implied term) and "those who incite". In an article in Ynet he states that these folks do more damage to Israel than Islamist or Pro-Palestinian Groups. The article goes on to talk about three such individuals, Norman Finkelstein, Gilad Atzmom, and Noam Chomsky.
Now as a Progressive Zionist, I disagree with much that these three say (though I have to give credit to Finkelstein for standing against the BDS movement). HOWEVER, they are not the thrust of Dershowitz' or the Right Wings' desire for internal suppression. No... that falls on members of the Progressive and Centrist Wings of the Zionist movement. He uses these three as focus but see below for his "real intent"
From the Ynet article
Prominent Jewish American lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday accused Jewish left-wing officials and organizations worldwide of slandering Israel's name and causing greater damage than that created by Islamic and pro-Palestinian movements.
Dershowitz, who is known to be an avid supporter of the State Israel, spoke during a Tel Aviv University symposium titled "Delegitimization of Israel as a Strategic Threat".
even more disturbing was this quote:
He went on to explain that Israel's greatest enemies were not radical Muslims, who he said only strengthened its claims, but rather Jews and Israelis worldwide using their descent in order to boost their unrestrainable attacks against Israel.
Well now... here is the crux of the matter. Mr. Dershowitz joins wingnuts the world over with this quote in his attempts to "purify" the Zionist movement. Like the Conservative Movement here in the states, he wants conformity of ideas with no deviation for the Zionist movement. Previously he had called Israelis who are Zionists but work for a fair Two-State solution traitors to the Jewish people.
In this Dershowitz has an unsuspecting ally in the One State Solution movement. He wants to paint all Zionists just as they do the same way. If we are not sufficiently Orthodox (in belief in Zionism) for him then we are not truly enough of Zionists. His picture of a Zionist is the same that the One-Staters have. For Mr. Dershowitz and the One Staters it seems the proto-typical Zionist is for either "Greater Israel", a unilateral Allon plan or something approaching that.
However, what he calls inciters are long time members of the Israeli Polity and American Jewish support for Israel. For instance, j Street is a progressive Jewish lobbying organization that strongly supports Israel but, also strongly supports President Obama's Two State Solution Strategy (that is being discussed in "proximity talks" between Israel and the Palestinians right now). Americans for Peace Now are another American affiliated group with the Israeli Group Shalom Achshav - a group that contains IDF veterans, Israelis of conscience, and Americans who strongly support both Isareli and Palestinian National Homelands.
Finally from Israel and the U.S. is Meretz USA. These are folks who strongly support Peace who like APN Have been "in the thick" of things and who have come out with a fair perspective on Peace. In contrast to Alan Dershowitz - this comment from Meretz USA regarding Peace is important for all to see.
For its part, the organized Jewish community has done two generations of disservice to Israel by blindly supporting the decades-long policy of Israeli governments to fill the occupied West Bank with hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israeli settlers.
With the support of many well-meaning but misdirected American Jews, Israel designed and implemented a settlement program whose fundamental illegitimacy provides fuel for those who would delegitimize Israel as a whole, while destroying the necessary conditions on the ground for a two-state solution.
Although many members of the Jewish leadership privately recognize the illogic and even illegitimacy of Israel's settlements, they have sadly acquiesced to the demand of successive Israeli governments that the American Jewish community never criticize even the most self-destructive of Jerusalem's policies.
There is an urgent need, therefore, to re-center the BDS debate and to anchor the question of political legitimacy that it raises on the 1967 pre-war border.
Supporters of peace must defend the Green Line from all those who would eradicate it. Efforts to erode that line - by both detractors and supporters of Israel - reduce the chances for agreement, prolong the occupation, and undermine Israel's right to exist in peace and security.
All those who refuse to recognize the Green Line as the political basis for legitimacy and the geographic basis for compromise (notwithstanding the likelihood that land swaps and border modifications will be part of a future negotiated agreement) are contributing to the delegitimization of Israel, whether by design or in practice.
Progressive Zionism, is not what Mr. Dershowitz would have you believe is the "enemy" of the Jewish people and Israel. Really it is him and those like him that would take American Jews on a "witchhunt" against our own people. One of the things that made Israel possible was the Jewish community's commitment to Progressive values and it's ability to work together to create a State after more than 2,000 years of world wide persecution. To ask us to tear apart our own community in the name of ideological purity is both sad and unfortunate almost 62 years after the founding of a State that was the realization of the Jewish people's national aspirations.