Israel’s Chris Hitchens

Amnon Lord, banned from the pages of respectable Leftist papers, has an article up on JPost about the fate of a Peace Now activist who thought that responding to the 1996 Hamas bombings with slavish peace overtures was somewhat dangerous:


Word got around that I was going to vote for Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud. This shocked the people who knew me as a foot soldier at Peace Now rallies or as an editor and reporter at the Hadashot newspaper during the 1980s and early 1990s… leaving the Left was not so much a matter of choice: I felt suffocated as if I were inside an intellectual gas chamber, I told him, and I just ran for my life. I couldn’t survive inside