
One must not dare to insult His Majesty Barack Obama nor His Royal Highness John Kerry. It is however permissible and perfectly fine to describe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "chicken***".
Ran Baratz was the victim of a political Stalinist coercion campaign. Baratz as a private person expressed legitimate views when he was not a public figure.
However, Baratz's biggest "sin" is living in Kfar Adumim, a Jewish town in Judea, and so belonging to the so-called "Jewish settlers", the world's most hated group of people. Baratz also supported the idea of Jewish prayer on Temple Mount, while the Israeli left would give it up tomorrow.
Baratz's biggest "sin" is living in Kfar Adumim, a Jewish town in Judea...On Baratz, the Israeli Left has crossed all lines of reasonableness with its hypocrisy. An Israeli patriot getd lessons om morality by commentators such as Ze’ev Sternhell who wrote. before he was chosen to receive the Israeli prize.despite protests: “There is no doubt about the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves. If only the Palestinians had a bit of sense, they would have been concentrating their struggle against the settlements, not hurting women and children and would avoid shooting at Gilo (a southern part of Jerusalem that was under daily fire, ed.) Nahal Oz (kibbutz near Gaza, ed.) and Sderot. They should also avoid detonating explosives on the western side of the Green Line. This way the Palestinians themselves would delineate the outline for a solution that will be undoubtedly achieved in the future”.
Sternhell thus gave his approval to Palestinian terrorism in the midst of the Second Intifada, when his own students were being butchered on buses and over 1000 Israelis were killed.
If you are "right-wing", so the prevailing wisdom goes, you have no hope of a career or academic advancement in Israel. Ran Baratz said the truth: Obama, Kerry and the gaggle in the White House are anti-Semitic.