That is the evaluation of Arielle Angel, editor-in-chief of the leftwing Jewish Currents U.S. monthly magazine, presented in an opinion piece in the yesterday’s Guardian, which she titled “Jewish Americans Are at a Turning Point with Israel.”
She describes herself as having been, while a leftist, “an ardent Zionist” until Israel’s 2014 assault on the Gaza Strip. “The images in the papers of Palestinian children bombed to pieces on a beach; Israelis in the rattled buffer town of Sderot gathered on hilltops overlooking the Strip, cheering as the bombs fell,” shook apart what had been her worldview until then, she wrote. Since then, “a small but committed Jewish anti-occupation movement” developed, which this past week was shown to have spread to larger sectors, as there were thousands of American Jews taking part in the protests in cities all over the U.S.—many, she observed, who were young.
