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The Israeli Left’s War Against the Israeli Flag
by Steven Plaut
June 9, 2016

The Israeli Left has a serious flag problem.  Well, a problem with the Israeli flag to be precise.  The one with the six-pointed blue star.  Not the ISIS flag. The Left intensely dislikes people who wave Israeli flags, although I think it would be okay with those radical anti-Trump protesters waving Mexican and Iranian flags.  At the Israeli Left’s own rallies, like one widely reported recently, one sees oodles of Stalinist red flags, lots of PLO flags, and sometimes one may see Hamas flags, but no Israeli flags…The latest twist in the Left’s jihad against the flag has to do with plans by participants in the upcoming Jerusalem Reunification Day festivities to wave it.  This has triggered horrific anger among the enlightened Left.  They are particularly irate because celebrants plan to march all over Jerusalem waving flags, including in all parts of the Old City. READ MORE

For those of you who view this content only in the weekly MailChimp summaries, my blog actually displays the flag of Israel in the mast. Who knows how many Israel-flag-hating readers I’ve lost this way.