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If I’ve learned one paradoxical truth from years of writing about occupied Palestine, it’s that a sophisticated Israeli propagandist is nearly always more brutish than a merely ignorant one
Michael Lesher
Michael Lesher is an author, poet and lawyer who has published numerous columns and nonfiction articles on subjects including child abuse, the Israel-Palestine conflict and the American family court system. He is the author of Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a "Born-Again" Jew (Lincoln Square Books) and Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (McFarland & Co., Inc.). His columns and articles have appeared in such publications as The Village Voice, Jewish Daily Forward, Jewish Week, ZNet, Mondoweiss and Electronic Intifada. An Orthodox Jew, Michael Lesher lives in Passaic, New Jersey. More information about his work can be found on his web site, www.MichaelLesher.com
If we allow the apologists to obscure Israel’s crimes with a sideshow of phony outrage and hypocritical posturing, we’ll only encourage the mugging of the next person who dares to tell the truth about the real State of Israel
Being of mild disposition, I am ill suited to describe in detail the thuggery by which the putative Jewish State executed 17…
If these people wanted the facts they would have absorbed them long ago: today, the real difficulty is keeping one’s head deep enough in the sand to avoid knowing the facts
That’s why those of us who make use in our writing of such selective memory, such willed ignorance of Palestinian suffering, are accomplices in the crimes of occupation
Only when we completely shed the idea that some people deserve greater privileges than other people will Orthodox Jews be able, at long last, to confront our lamentable record in sex abuse cases
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In a society where racism and neoliberalism are fashioning increasingly desperate environments for more and more working people, ignorance is too costly a luxury