The revelations of Rabbi Wise are both startling and troubling, but definitely not uncommon. In my own experience, to voice opposition to Zionism as a non-Jew brings forth a torrent of wrath and accusations of anti-Semitism, and to cite any Jewish voices has them summarily dismissed as "self-hating." When I have been told that I hate Jews, I would respond that their problem with me was merely that I liked and admired the "wrong" Jews.

The site owner and author of this piece is most familiar with the minefield speaking out entails.

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"I respect Wise’s choices. I like pluralism, I’m not a litmus test person. But having done this work for some time now and been subject to the same invective and ostracization, with the same initial emotional shock that Wise experienced, I’ve lost my romance about the Jewish community. It made a clear choice to cancel us. And I also made my choice: if excommunication is the cost of supporting Palestinian rights, bring it on. And to the extent Jewishness is important to me, which it still is, I am proud to have an outlaw Jewish community of friends."