As I’m sure you are all now aware, on the Shabbat after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning entry to the United States to all people from seven Islamic countries. Since then it has met with near universal condemnation from the Left (as well as substantial opprobrium from the Right as well).
But as I watched these Far Leftists fill up my Twitter Feed with condemnations, I started to get very angry. There are currently sixteen(!) countries that ban all Israelis from entering, eight of whom also ban anyone who has an Israeli stamp in their passport! Other than Somalia, all seven countries that were banned by this weekend’s executive order – Iran, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – have officially banned all Israelis since its reestablishment nearly seventy years ago.
While Americans didn’t wait a single day to protest this unjust and ineffective policy, to the best of my knowledge, there has not been a single protest against these policies in any of the above countries, on the contrary, there have been plenty of anti-normalization protests in favor of them. Leftists have come out into the streets to protest their own government’s discriminatory law, but have not said a word about the same exact laws that have existed for decades.
What’s more, unsatisfied that only sixteen countries currently ban Israelis, these same people and organizations are seeking to expand the Israel Ban through BDS! But sadly, now these groups will gain supporters and credibility without anyone pointing out their disgusting anti-Jewish hypocrisy.
The anti-Israel movement has always been a haven of brazen chutzpah but this is audacious even by their standards. Don’t let them get away with it.
