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Hurt Feelings and Other Israeli Crimes
by Eli Lake
November 11, 2015

It’s official: Thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Center for American Progress is no longer a safe space for progressives. At least this is the considered opinion of about a dozen of the liberal think tank’s staff members who endorsed a 13-paragraph statement expressing how their employer’s decision to invite Israel’s prime minister to speak on Tuesday wounded their feelings….To start, it shows the migration from U.S. college campuses to Washington of the “cry bully” culture, to borrow a brilliant phrase from Julie Burchill. It’s a new politics of powerlessness, where the aggrieved (or those in solidarity with them) demand that all dissenting views be excised from the discourse for the safety and well-being of the aggrieved. READ MORE