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No, we are not.

7.  “For all their protestations that they are good liberals, many American settler leaders have been deafeningly silent on recent acts of Jewish terrorism…Where are their op-eds in American and Israeli newspapers condemning violent Jewish extremism?”

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The NYTimes, The Forward, etc. do not publish me for I am a “settler”.

8.  For four decades, their condemnation has often been either muted or tempered by attempts to play down Jewish terrorism by framing it as an issue of “understanding the context” — a euphemism for reacting to Palestinian violence.”

And, for a scholar, context is … wrong?

9.  …it is not enough for Jews to preach to Palestinians that moderates must speak out, murderers must be cast out, and incitement must be stopped without taking the same aggressive steps within their own communities.”

And it is not enough for Ms. Hirschhorn and her fellow liberals to preach solely to the Jews.  Or to castigate them unfairly, especially to promote a book, based on her PhD dissertation which is being published in her forthcoming “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement Since 1967.”

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Yisrael Medad resides in Shiloh and is a foreign media spokesperson for the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities.