Can the Israeli Left Save Itself?
Is there any more valuable emotional currency for our moment than the condemnation? No matter what has happened, no matter who has done it, someone will rise and demand that someone else issue a public excoriation. Like Trump, like tweets, condemnations are perfect vehicles for an era enamored with being enraged, and both their sound and their fury signify nothing and mean even less.
Except, of course, when they mean more. These last few months, Israeli political animals of very different stripes have given us two distinct lessons in the politics of condemnation. If you want a clear view into the increasingly cloudy landscape of Israeli civic life, just look at who denounced what when violence erupted.