With Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, and Palestinian children dying in the streets, there is no time to waste on partisan antics or grandiose statements for tribal consumption. We urge all readers to challenge dangerous rhetoric, whether it concerns driving Jews out of the land ‘from the river to the sea’ or, conversely, treating the Palestinians in Gaza as the ‘Amalekites’ who should have been wiped out long ago – in both cases appearing to invoke biblical precedent or even warrant for the ongoing cycle of violence and wickedness.
