Kolot: What’s in a Flag – or an Anthem – Anyway?
Yet if there was a movement among British Jews which had the temerity to demand changes in the Union Jack, a Christian banner if there ever was one, I would think that British patriots would reply that none are forced to stay and live in a nation they find politically, ethnically and/or religiously abhorrent with symbols they feel the need to disrespect and revile. If Turkish Jews demanded the removal of the Muslim crescent from that nation’s flag we can just imagine the ensuing pogrom!
Our flag, our State Seal with its depiction of the Menorah and HaTikvah, our anthem, represent who we are and what we hold to be true and self- evident. It matters less to me if some refuse to fly it, to display it, or to sing it.
The flag of Israel
We will neither change them nor allow them to be debased. It is high time to state those parameters clearly!
That’s what’s in the flag…anyway!
Aharon Pulver is Executive Director of The Israel Independence Fund.
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