Boycott the Knesset

What most of the people who don't like Mr. Landau article is that Israel is very close to killing itself in the arena of world opinion. Its rating going down from an amazing country to now a days a cursed one, destroying the one good thing left for it claiming to be the only democracy in the Middle East, the death blow to existence is getting closer at hand.

You want to committ suicide, be my guest. But, leave me & the rest of the sane people out of it. You screwy leftists have caused us nothing but damage, cost lives for nothing, and still you go on, not learning a damn thing from experience. I'm sick of the BS rhetoric, you've turned language itself into a parody, you & your ilk are the true disciples of George Orwell, you've made a joke out of our noblest ideas & values. Democracy. What the hell do you know about democracy? All you want is to undermine democracy, you & your Islamic friends.

Landau is a well-known anti-Zionist, fired from the Jerusalem Post, but finds a welcome home in the declining anti-Zionist Haaretz. Three pathetic seats is all that Meretz has to show, vomitted from the Israeli people. So Landua appeals only to Israel's enemies, its would-be murderers. Sick and pathetic. You won't even be a footnote in history.

Israel has always had their right wingers but the mass immigration from the Soviet Union, while, from Jewish Israel's perspective, was useful to address demographic issues, flooded the country with people brought up under the Soviet System; a system which, sadly, perverted the individual and rewarded bullying, brute force, and selfishness.

When Landau gets around to reading the law he'll see that he can't be punished for his call to boycott the Knesset. The law refers only to those who want to boycott someone because of his connection to the State of Israel (including Judea and Samaria). It doesn't prevent anyone from boycotting the Knesset because he doesn't like its policies. In this respect, as in others by the way, Mr. Landau is very close to the Neturei Karta.

... in the present Knesset one may be apprehended for such statements...

It's voices like this that make me still believe in the state of Israel, but it gets harder with each passing day. When Israel can declare itself a homeland for Jews without demanding that it be. Jewish State, with more rights for Jews than anyone else, then it can call itself a democracy.

...what a democracy needs, to be still a democracy. do we really need right to meet at streets or else. do we need not-censored media ? do we really need the right to stay at birthplace ? do we really need the right to establish political parties for all ? do we need a debate-culture in our parliament ? do we need the right for all to vote their major ? or MofPaliament ? or PM ? do we need a highest court which can hold on gov. ? do we need to seperate police/ army /intelligent services ? or let me ask: what do we need in every case ???

David, I totally agree with you. Thank you for your excellent well balanced article

David Landau is one of the few brilliant political commentators in the country. His desire to preserve democracy is founded on good intentions. Of course Y Leibowitz and others said this even in 1967. This has been continually ignored with terrible ramifications since. But who can blame Israel for its lack of tact and sensitivity? It's the only country in the region with a world historic task.

There were 3 sponsors of the bill against "boycott speech". 1. Ze'ev Elkin: Grew up in Russia (to age 19) and is also religious. He represents two sectors of the right wing, Russians and Religion, people who object in principle to free speech. 2. Dalia Itzik: Born in Israel, but to a poor Iraqi family. Iraqi culture and free speech don't go together. (Check with Saddam, or any Arab country.) 3. Aryeh Eldad, son of Israel Eldad, chief ideologue of Lehi (Stern Gang). The man is a genuine hardliner, of the type that would have prevented the establishment of the state (by objecting to Partition), and assassinated people with different ideas (such as UN mediator Count Bernadott). Israeli democracy is now endangered by these elements which truly represent the Right Wing.

Make your call to boycott the Knesset after the bill becomes law, then you will be punished and gain some footnote in the history books. Right now, no punishment unless the crazies make the law retroactive. But it is indeed a good idea to speak to other parliaments so that they can educate our Knesset about "freedom of speech". The sponsors of the bill use as (fake) justification a US law forbidding PARTICIPATION in a boycott against US allies. But speech is constitutionally protected in the US, and one can advocate a boycott. Our crazies do not distinguish between speech and action.

So much for freedom of speech in "the only democracy in the ME", ha.

My advice is to calm down. Boycotts are an extreme measure that should be used only in situations that are desperate. You don't have to kill a fly with a cannon. You need a long vacation more than a boycott.

Landau, aside from erratic thought processes that only synchronize with leftist mantras, the only reason the Knesset is proposing this legislation is due to the fact that abusers of democracy, like you, almost destroyed Israel and continue to hide behind democratic roadblocks while shooting anti-jewish/antisemitic/anti israel invectives at your own people. Possible worse than our despotic neighbors!

Tell you what David, I promise that if you are sent to the slammer for advocating a boycott of some Knesset members, I will publish the same article that sends you behind bars, under my own name. Do you play chess, do you have enough books?

If you think otherwise you are a mentally sick thing on two feet.

With today's issue the renown newspaper Haaretz has officially joined the lunatic fringe. Who will rescue it?

boycotts work

in the temple of "democracy for Jews"!! Why attack the borders while the legislators tear any semblance of democracy apart in one after another self-inflicted Samson haircuts. The once fussy crew-cut is now shinning bald and scarred for the world to see. Who needs enemies when the leaders commit hari kari but with no honour!!!?

Dear David, thank you for the courage to speak out against the lunacy that is taking place. When will sober people on both sides have a chance to provide the majorities what they aspire for. I hope you are not affected by the attackers who clearly don't know you and your opinions for a safe Israel that is a light to otherrs

I hasten to call for the boycott of David Landau for advocating that a member of Parliament should be allowed to support the enemies of the state in which he resides and take part in provocative and hostile acts in encouraging a group of terrorists to continue to refuse the Red Cross access to a prisoner of war after a number of years of detention. Landau has not as yet called for the boycott of Hamas for instance

Like South Africa was a democracy for whites.

Listening to gibberish of Landau ,I'm inclined to believe Rabin murder was aranged by his ilk in order to prolong his Pol Pot faction to impose stranglehold on Israel.

A full-fledged international boycott of everything "Israeli" grows more imminent with every day that passes.

Now it's "let's starve the Jews into agreement"? G-d, you're becoming more and more pathetic.

Yet another bolt from the Gaza humanitarian flotilla! A lightening shot into the heart of "Israel is a democracy for Jews." Samson self-inflicted haircut to bring down the temple of Zionist democracy with a series of serious faux pas thunder claps.

international levels where democracies exercise their right to be influential in deterring threats, discrimination, etc. But boycotting individuals and institutions is more of having a political agenda and perhaps infringe on the democratic right individuals have. David Landau, a courageous peace advocate and respected former editor of Haaretz, knows the damage that stifling and fining the democratic rights of Israelis to protest is not conducive to real democracies. Sometimes boycotts work, eg. Starbucks in Israel. At other times the boycotts advocated similarities to the time of Nazi-occupied Germany, boycotting Jews from universities, businesses, etc. It's better to resolve the problems which precipitate boycotts.PS. I hope I'm not fined NIS 30,000 for stating an opinion on boycotts.

I think imprisonment is a more fair punishment for Israelis who betray their nation, but we will start by taking 30,000 shekels from you.

SICK LEFTY! ARE YOU JEWISH? IT DOES NOT SEEM SO. WHY DONT YOU GO LIVE IN ARAB LANDS? THIS ARTICLE, WRITTEN BY AN ANTI-JEW ONLY COULD BE PUBLISHED IN HAARETZ!! WHERE ELSE. SO DISGUSTING.