ALGEMEINER
by Shmuley Boteach
September 8, 2014

This Thursday, Sept. 11th, Naomi Wolf and I will be debating the question, “Is Israel Guilty of Genocide In Its War Against Hamas?” at the Manhattan Jewish Experience on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Naomi is a friend of mine. We both have history at Oxford. She earned her degree as a Rhodes scholar and I served as rabbi to the students for 11 years. Naomi reached out to me for a book she was writing and having been a fan of her work I greatly enjoyed making her acquaintance. She subsequently attended Shabbat dinner with my family.

Naomi’s books have raised important issues particularly in the realm of women’s rights and social justice, which is why I was shocked when I learned that Naomi was involved in a blood libel against the State of Israel with false and shocking allegations of a Palestinian genocide.

In The New York Observer, I pointed out that genocide is the targeting of a distinct ethnic group for mass murder and extermination. Describing Israel’s righteous and defensive war against the Hamas terrorists death cult as a genocide is itself an abomination…..

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