The Bellicose Israeli Nation

When Israel was founded in 1948 it was a leftist state. Prime Minister David Ben Gurion led the Labour Party, which ruled uninterrupted until unseated by Menachim Begin's Likud in 1977. Labour was very much a mid-century democratic socialist party, it's ideology compatible with Clement Atlee's British Labour, and beloved by FDR New Deal Democrats. 

Socialist Kibbutzs were instrumental in the early history of Israel. 

What is Israel is a question as intriguing as what is Judaism? Are Jews a religious or an ethnic group?

With it's new Nation State Law Israel defines itself as the home of the Jewish people. Israel is not just a religious state or an ethnic state, but a nation-state.

The indefatigable Steve Sailer points out that the new nationalist Israel makes old fashioned Democrats uncomfortable.

Israel is now a center-right state. The old Labour party is a husk, and the main opposition to Netanyahu's right-wing Likud comes from Tzipi Livni's centrist party. The left is dead, its reputation impaled on the Oslo so called 'Peace Process'. The last Labour PM was Ehud Barak, who Aerial Sharon* wiped out in the election of 2001 after the failure of said Peace Process.

The new Israel has little to recommend it to the Israel of Shimon Peres**, four time failed Israeli politician. Bibi's Israel is not inclined to 'restraint' as the old Clinton-Albright cliché went. In fact Israel is hyper-bellicose toward terror, Syria and Iran. 

Jews aren't supposed to do that sort of thing.

*Greatest Jew since Moses, or Charleton Heston
**Quisling

A national army liberates a religious structure

Israeli Nationalism

The Israeli Knesset has passed a Nation-State Law declaring the obvious: Israel is the Jewish State. The law recognizes Jewish holidays, declares Jerusalem is the capitol, and makes the Hebrew calendar the state calendar.

American Jewish groups are protesting of course:

The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday added its voice to a growing chorus of disapproval over Israel’s controversial Jewish nation-state law, saying the new legislation raises concerns about Israel’s commitment to its democratic nature, and calling for the law not to be used to discriminate against minorities.

“We are troubled by the fact that the law, which celebrates the fundamental Jewish nature of the state, raises significant questions about the government’s long-term commitment to its pluralistic identity and democratic nature,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, and Carole Nuriel, Israel director of the watchdog group, in a statement.

Israel has absolutely no responsibility whatsoever to be 'pluralistic'. Israel has a responsibility to be Jewish. About 20% of Israel is Arab Muslim or Christian, with a smattering of Druze.

The ADL and other leftwing Jewish groups have elevated the values of 'diversity' and such above Judaism and Israeli nationalism.

So we see the uselessness of American Jewish organizations like the ADL.