The left’s all-too-telling attempt to silence Netanyahu
http://nypost.com/2015/11/09/the-lefts-all-too-telling-attempt-to-silence-netanyahu/
A gaggle of hard lefties and fellow travelers is out to stop Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking Tuesday to the Center for American Progress, a left-wing think tank with close White House ties.
Netanyahu is in DC mending fences after he fought hard against President Obama’s Iran nuke deal, hence the CAP event.
But various hard-left activists, liberal church types and Arab groups don’t think anyone should be allowed to hear what Bibi has to say. Backed by thousands of online signatures, they complain the CAP event grants legitimacy to Netanyahu’s “ever more expansionist policies of occupation.”
This, when he’s not even giving a speech, just joining a dialogue with Neera Tanden, CAP’s CEO and a veteran of both Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns. And he’s taking audience questions, where critics can press him hard.
To its credit, CAP has rejected these “progressive” complaints, noting that “an open discourse on important topics” is a true “progressive value.”
On the other hand, Foreign Policy reports that the CAP staff itself on Monday held a collective snit fit over the decision to invite Netanyahu.
But we’re glad to see the think tank’s leaders standing fast against lefties’ growing view that freedom of speech belongs only to those they agree with — and that anyone with an opposing view should be muzzled.
It seems “shut up” is the best argument the left has left.
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