and has visited Iran, which happens to be officially on record as calling for the annihilation of Israel and its population.
When Beinin visited Iran, Israel and Iran enjoyed warm relations.
Plaut's version is a distortion.

Joel Beinin, the Israel-hating pro-Hamas…
That is a subjective observation. Where does Beinin ever say he is pro-Hamas? Where has Beinin EVER written, or said he hates Israel?

Most passport inspectors at Tel Aviv airport, by the way, are teenage girls.
Really? This is also a lie. ALL passport inspectors are police officers. Teenage girls in Israel are either in school, in the army, or religious, meaning they are certainly not in the army – more likely in the kitchen, but that is another story.

Plaut – I do not agree with Beinin, however you seem to be the one who is whinning, using inuendo, juxtaposition, quotes and situations taken out of context, and outright lies to make your point. I would subscribe to a better paradigm – take the middle path. This advice was offered by the Rambam. I suggest you take it as well. Then your screed would be more credible.

From my point of view you and Beinin are of ther same cloth, using language in masque and gavel oratory technique to obfusicate what is a complicated issue for your own self-gratification.

Israel does not need Beinin. Nor you.

By the way, Israeli security is the best in the world. El Al agents ask similarly mundane questions. Beinin is either a world class naif, or is willfully ignoring the fact that security agents are trained to ask mundane questions in order to observe the involuntary physical responses that accompany the answers and may indicate lying, stress, nervousness, etc. The combination of Beinin's narcissism and his ideological agenda force him to whinge about work-a-day treatment in Israel. What an embarrassment this man is to Stanford and to academia in general.

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And yet, if a patriotic American made the same linkage between the Jews and infringement of liberty, he'd be immediately (and probably rightly) accused of antisemitism.

If it was hatred of Jews that drove this pro-Israel lobby, it would make a lot of sense.

To Mr. Beinin get a life.

“Within the Jewish people there are those who wish to remember and those who do not. Those who do not, dislike (or hate) their heritage with such intensity, they will do everything in their power to erase it. This then is what those called the “Left” wish to do. Therefore, their present effort to teach revised history and, through the children, blank out their National Memory is a crime of major proportions. I cannot think of another race or culture where their descendants taught elimination of their past.

Only an aberrant segment of our Jews who cannot abide our ancient religion, its lore and the obligations of restraint it has put upon us has chosen to corrupt and then eliminate our memory. They are dedicated to consigning the pillars of our past, Abraham, Isaac, Moses, David and the Prophets to the junkyards of history as fables and myths . They wish to cast the heroic re-birth of Israel as a 'shameful' mistake. Underlying this process is the theory: if we were no longer identified by ourselves and the world as Jews, the unrelenting pursuit of the Jewish people (no longer Jewish) would cease.

Politicians and professors who hate their Jewishness and hate even more The Jewishness of others are thought criminals of the mind. They steal the thoughts of children and guide them into channels where feelings of inferiority and contempt for their forefathers are the replacement.

These Leftist Jewish professors and politicians aren't very deal different from their Palestinian Arab neighbors. They, too, have re-written their text-books to fit their hostile aberrant mind-set and the delusions of revenge they wish the children to fulfill for them. Their curriculum instructs the children that Jews are evil and must be eliminated. Strange, isn't it? Arab professors allied with Arab politicians are preparing The minds of their children to despise and kill Jews throughout their adult life, while Jewish professors are teaching the very same thing – to despise the Jewishness in the Jews themselves.”