To uncritically support profoundly discriminatory policies undermines our proud past and imperils the sanctity of our international position on human rights.
Zimmerman has also penned a number of articles for progressive Jewish publications condemning the Israeli government, its occupation of Palestinian lands, and American Jewish institutions that, in her view, uncritically support Israeli policies.
Holy Week should challenge the idea that many people of faith can uncritically support a notion of "religious liberty" that results in deep harm to those whose livelihoods are already vulnerable, whose lives are already precarious.
Having done so well out of the EU, Spain has uncritically supported almost anything coming out of Brussels.
Israel has been a participant in this game and President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel.
One reporter, Jayson Blair, was found to have plagiarised and made things up, and Judith Miller's war reporting uncritically supported the government's line on WMD.
President Bush, who is making his war on terrorism the centerpiece of his election campaign, is actually endangering Americans by uncritically supporting Israel.
His research, which inevitably covered the American relationship with Japan, led him, he writes, "to see clearly for the first time the shape of the empire that I had so long uncritically supported".
Those on the left who (rightly if often too uncritically) supported those struggles, especially in Vietnam, where the Americans were so clearly the enemy, slipped fatally, however, into embracing this anti-Zionism into their world view, even though the Israel-Palestine conflict had such clearly different roots.
And right behind Egypt are Yemen, Jordan, Algeria, and who knows what other countries, all looking to free themselves of governments that the US and its European allies have uncritically supported for decades.
Until we overhaul our foreign policy and stop invading other countries, changing their regimes, occupying, torturing and indefinitely detaining their people, and uncritically supporting other countries that illegally occupy other peoples' lands, we will never be safe from terrorism.
