u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest

▲ 12 r/JewsOfConscience+1 crossposts

In 1990, Israel tried to stop the book sale with an injunction arguing that publication would "endanger agents in the field". It was the first (and, to date, only) attempt of a sovereign state to stop a book from being published in the United States.

u/CopiousCool — 15 days ago

The former editor of the outlet Makor Rishon (‘First Source’) wrote a tirade in that paper making the argument that American Jews are traitors because they could have come to Israel by the millions, but chose to remain in the “disgrace of their willful exile.”  

The article basically sets a deadline for the diaspora to move to Israel by 2031.

>Perhaps the time has come to deliver an ultimatum: Dear brothers, if you do not make Aliyah in the masses within five years, until Independence Day 2031, we will stop sending you emissaries and dismantle the [Jewish] Agency.”

That really might not be the threat he thinks it is. If Israel set a deadline for the diaspora to move, what would you do? Thoughts?

u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest — 26 days ago