Michael Boyden

Where are the bleeding hearts?

One has grown accustomed to those bleeding hearts that assemble each week in cities across the globe, from New York to London to Sydney, to protest against Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

They accuse the Jewish state of genocide strangely unaware of the fact that their posters proclaiming “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” are a call to make Israel Judenrein just as are Libya, Iraq, Iran and a host of other Muslim countries where Jews once had their homes.

These self-appointed defenders of humanity, who were quick to express their outrage when the IDF entered the Gaza Strip following the October 7th massacre, were strangely silent as men, women and children and even babies were snatched from their homes and dragged into captivity by the Palestinians.

Their silence and that of the so-called international community while Jewish hostages were being tormented and tortured for over two years in Hamas’ underground tunnels in Gaza was inexcusable and is unforgiveable.

But they do not only turn a blind eye on Jewish suffering. Hundreds of brave women and men are being murdered in the streets of Iran today as a merciless, totalitarian theocratic regime seeks to suppress their calls for freedom.

Where are those huge crowds and noisy marches by those left-wing bleeding hearts, who protest at Palestinian suffering, but fail to take to the streets when it comes to the brave struggle for freedom taking place before our very eyes in Iran?

Could it just be that their primary motivation is antisemitism and a desire to liquidate the Jewish state rather than any real concern to give succor to those who are suffering?

About the Author
Michael Boyden made aliyah from the UK in 1985, is a former President of the Israel Council of Reform Rabbis, Director of its Beit Din (Rabbinic Court) and rabbi of Kehilat Yonatan in Hod Hasharon, Israel.
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