ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Cancel culture comes to the Conference of Presidents
Morton A. Klein
March 1, 2023

…It is painful for me to report that the Conference of President’s directors violated the leadership mission’s purpose, by refusing to give podiums to the major elected ministers and Israeli leaders who are in the forefront of promoting Israel’s judicial, anti-terror and other reforms…The CoP directors’ refusal to have a session with these important leaders of these critical issues – a form of “cancel culture” – was an enormous missed opportunity to learn from, ask challenging questions to, and exchange views with the judicial and anti-terror reforms’ originators. Americans are being inundated with misinformed, bald claims that the reforms are “undemocratic.” Shouldn’t American leaders have had the opportunity to hear from the Israeli leaders and originators who are in the best position to explain why the reforms would in fact make Israel safer, more democratic, and more like American democracy? READ MORE