Why Zionists want to be told what to think about Israel

The front page of this week’s Australian Jewish News features a picture of Theodore Herzl, a headline that reads, “Unite behind the blue and white” and the lines: “Despite facing a barrage of assaults on a daily basis, 150 years after Herzl’s birth and 62 years after the foundation of the state, Israel remains a beacon of hope for world Jewry.”