‘Pro-Israel’?? – Why would liberal Jewish groups that proclaim to be pro-Israel try to torpedo a World Zionist Congress bill declaring the Jewish people indigenous to Israel?
By Ari Soffer
It would seem to be a fairly basic principle for a pro-Israel organization to accept: that the Jewish people is an indigenous nation to the Land of Israel.
Not so for J Street and several other self-defined “liberal Zionist” organization’s.
At the World Zionist Congress last week, a proposal entitle “Recognition of the Jewish People as Indigenous to the Land of Israel” was proposed by LAVI, a relatively small but active group of newcomers to the World Zionist Organization’s legislative body.