Why Jews Who Turn on Israel to Be Loved Still Get Hated – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

What compelled UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, a Jew, not only to shake hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi but also to meet with anti-Israel New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani without meeting any Israeli officials at the United Nations General Assembly this month?

According to Jewish historian Trudy Gold, the explanation is simple: Miliband, like most people, wants to be loved and to belong.

If most of the world says that Israel is evil, then it’s much easier to go along with that lie than to stand up for the region’s lone democracy, which is fighting a regime that seeks Israel’s destruction and has killed tens of thousands of its own citizens. In an interview on J-TV, Gold said she feels sorry for the “deluded” Miliband and is “offended that he calls himself a Jew.”

Her exasperation doesn’t mean she fails to understand why so many Jews turn against Israel to side with the majority. It takes real bravery to resist, as we’ve seen with non-Jews like Boy George, whose outspoken support for Israel and the Jews has made him a target of the anti-Israel mob. Contrary to what Susan Sarandon says, it’s the pro-Israel stance, not the pro-Palestinian one, that is more likely lead to real ostracism in the arts community. Jews understand that better than anyone. Gold notes:

I think also if you think of the kind of community of the liberal left, and it’s tied up with sort of the university campus with all the music festivals. I mean, anti-Semitism in the arts is completely out of control now. And look how many Jewish celebrities and Jewish writers have joined the charge against Israel because they want to be loved. They want to be loved by the majority.

Because tragically, all this teaches us that the Enlightenment that I think Jews were emancipated under, the idea of reason… What this proves to me more than anything else is that we are not creatures of reason.