[wvns] New Israeli Law Embarrassingly Un-American
ADL Opposes new Israeli Law
Orthodox group favors JNF bill
08/02/2007
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103396.html
The National Council of Young Israel is supporting a Knesset bill that
has generated significant opposition from many American Jewish groups.
In a letter dated July 30, the executive director and president of the
council defended a proposal that permits the Israel Lands Authority to
maintain its longstanding policy of refusing to lease to non-Jews
Israeli land owned by the Jewish National Fund.
"Yes, Israel is a democracy; a bastion of freedom," wrote President
Shlomo Mostofsky and Executive Director Rabbi Pesach Lerner. "But a
democracy doesn't have to prove itself by forfeiting its right to its
national purpose."
Among those speaking out against the measure are the Union for Reform
Judaism, the Anti-Defamation League and Ameinu, the American affiliate
of the World Labor Zionist Movement. JNF's American fund-raising arm
and the Zionist Organization of America both support it.
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