Magen David Adom Red Cross Deal Kind of Embarrassing

Many liberal Jewish organizations – from humanitarian teams in Israel to
service groups in the United States – exhibit a cringe-worthy willingness to demean themselves in exchange for the trappings of international acceptance. Concomitant with that willingness are a series of justificatory rituals, designed to convince themselves and others that their debasement was worth the begrudging nods of faux acceptance that it earned – the more pyrrhic the victory, the more shrill the justifications. So it almost feels unseemly to read Hadassah’s June Walker describe the href="http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11271960.html">pathetic spectacle of Jews agreeing to href="http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=106&sid=6287224&cKey=1133718364000">hide the Star of David so that they can join the Red Cross as “a new beginning for the world health community”. As if giving up all visible signs of Jewish humanitarianism is a worthy accomplishment for Jewish humanitarian groups. Admittedly, here are people trying to answer her – but not enough to counter those who urge Jewish groups to grovel for acceptance from people who can’t bear to look at Jewish symbols, let alone at Jews.