"In that call with his publicist, Mr. Leifer learned that she had been given the message that the conversation should avoid uncomfortable territory... My initial response was Wow, that is a surprising and unsettling thing to hear from the bookstore."
"He was not a Zionist who remained uncritical of Israel; he was not a zealot of the right. He believes in the Zionism of its literal definition, the animating principle of which is unacceptable to some faction of the pro-Palestinian left."
"Mr. Leifer, who describes himself as an anti-occupation Jew in favor of a democratic Israel, was welcome to speak on his own, but Rabbi Bachman was not invited to join him onstage."
"The staff at Powerhouse, an arty but not aggressively political bookstore on the waterfront in Dumbo, was objecting on the grounds that Rabbi Bachman was a Zionist."
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