Selective Outrage: Why Can’t Jewish Leaders Speak Truth to Power?
by Ruth S. King, AFSI
Sunday, December 31, 2006
On December 14, a group of 150 prominent Jewish leaders, attorneys, intellectuals, journalists, and diplomats assembled in New York under the auspices of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The stated goal was the indictment of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad for inciting genocide.
As is predictable at such august gatherings, there was much soap box rhetoric. Most were enraged and sincere, but some statements were over the top. Irwin Kotler, a former minister of justice in Canada, went so far as to compare Ahmadinejad to (gasp) Pinochet! If only Israel’s enemies were like Pinochet.
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