Debate | Should Jews Support Leaders Who Lie? | No
The simple answer would be no. It depends partly on how you define lies.
The simple answer would be no. It depends partly on how you define lies.
Yitzhak Shamir once said that for the safety and security of the State of Israel, one can lie.
The university context is special, because students have a status that allows the university to regulate them qua students—which is very different from the relationship between a citizen and the state.
Not only does the university not have the right, or the power, to educate students in what it thinks is civil or not civil; doing so is contrary to the goal of a liberal arts education.
“Not only do they have a right to critique Israel’s policies, they have a responsibility to do so”.
We should act with the knowledge that our criticism could be misused and misconstrued
CFAC author Paul Driessen says Jews have no responsibility to fight Climate Change, human impact is unproven.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow says Jews have a responsibility to fight climate change.
Yoram Hazony argues that Nationalism is better for the world than Globalism.