This woman is is not in touch with reality.

Which ones have been denied? So far as I can tell, Arab Israeli citizens have all the democratic rights of Jewish citizens. So far as Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, In the San Remo Agreement, their civil and religious rights were expressly preserved. Civil rights include the individual right to vote in a democracy. Their collective political rights could not be preserved because they never had any. They were always ruled by others. These political rights -- collective political rights , or sovereignty were awarded to the Jews in consideration of their long history in Palestine. The Arabs lost nothing -- they never had political rights and they still don't. They advance no good reason justifying awarding them to the local Arabs and other non-Jews. They fought for the Ottomans during WWI, against the British. The Jews had a Jewish brigade fighting alongside the Allies. Ditto in WWII..

as a member of the" inconsequential minority", it is they who defend israel democracy against boycott plus disinvestment plus sanctions which equals sobotage against a nation threatened to extinction by hostile neighbors who will never accept a jewish state

Just imagine a reversed situation: an arab lesbian activist fighting for the jewih people's self determination. What would her life expectancy be worth?

All Israelis have to do is look at the United Sates and what the liberal left, mostly Jews, academia and a liberal media has done. In their world language, borders and culture are the enemy, not the millions pouring through open boarders, not those who bring drugs into the country, not those that do not want to asimilate, not those who would terrorize a civilian poulation. To these far left socialist and communist liberals, American patriots are the enemy.

in academic ...fighting is for the truth only ...................

The hypocrisy of the left is astounding. They shout, “End the occupation now!” but when Israel did end the occupation of Gaza, they accused Israel of unilateralism. They cry out against racism, but they treat the Palestinians with a paternalistic racism that considers them so primitive they cannot be held responsible for what they do. After all, I have been told, you can’t expect the Palestinians to change, they grew up with an anti-Israel narrative. Israelis are expected to change. Israelis who have lived for years under the threat of Arab aggression and Palestinian terrorism are expected to change and to forgive and to apologize. But Palestinians are not expected to change. They are not expected to stop broadcasting children’s TV programs that fill their children’s minds with racist hatred. No wonder the Palestinians keep calling themselves victims. More about correctness at : http://xrl.us/bi5da

The Israeli left perpetrated the disastrous Oslo accords on the people, demonstrating that the left is far from rational or scientific.It made these accords paying no heed to Clausewitz’ teachings about war and diplomacy, while it refused and refuses to realize that Israel’s Arab-Muslim adversaries have their own unique culture and character which must be understood. Likewise the West – which often reproaches Israel for alleged moral breaches, while overlooking Arab and Muslim crimes – must be understood as explained at : http://xrl.us/bi3f7

Here's what's behind the "attack:" 1. Moral indignation, expressed in debate. The people you defend describe Israel and Zionism as racist, fascist and apartheid. That is morally indefensible, antisemitic hate speech masquerading as scholarship--the kind of thing every moral person should condemn. Most Israelis do, not just a small right-wing plutocracy. Expressing such condemnation is a legitimate use of free speech. 2. Your implication that condemning the indefensible is tantamount to threatening to shoot someone is a pathetic attempt at moral blackmail to shut people up. 3. Many of the people engaged in the immoral activity described in (1) above are paid salaries by the people of Israel. It's legitimate to debate whether they shouldn't be fired. You'd fire a holocaust-denier, wouldn't you? (Would you?!) 4. I agree with you that this controversy has given rise to dangerous legislative proposals that would curb free speech in general, and that these proposals should be opposed.