Sorry, Naftali Bennett: ‘Normal’ Democracies Don’t Ban Nonviolent Resistance
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By Issa Amro
https://forward.com/opinion/393096/sorry-naftali-bennett-normal-democracies-dont-ban-nonviolent-resistance/
Last week, Israeli Member of Knesset Naftali Bennett wrote an op edin the New York Times defending Israel’s new blacklist. The blacklist bans members of 20 European and US organizations from entering Israel, based on their support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.
This ban is just, argued the leader of Israel’s nationalist Jewish Home party. Israel has been “forced to battle a new enemy,” Bennett wrote. “This one lacks tanks and missiles, but it, too, poses a serious threat to the Jewish state. And we aren’t hesitating to fight back.”
Naz|i Naftali Bennett 'Shoah Photo'
Throughout the piece, Bennett’s tone is above all reasonab...