RUTH BADER GINSBURG, STEPHEN BREYER AND ELENA KAGAN ARE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL

The U.S. Supreme Court’s three Jewish justices voted not to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports

On Monday the U.S. Supreme court ruled 6-3 that American citizens born in Jerusalem could not list Israel as their birthplace. The ruling finally ends a lawsuit filed 12 years ago against the U.S. State Department by three American citizens, Menachem Zivotofsky and his parents.

The State Department has adamantly joined with European and other nations in refusing to recognize the sovereignty over Jerusalem by any nation. Israel has declared that all of Jerusalem is its capital. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.

In 1995 Congress passed legislation calling for the U.S. to recognize a united Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The State Department under every administration since then has refused abide by that legislation. In 2002, Congress passed legislation calling on the president to have the U.S. embassy moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace. As the Zivotofsky lawsuit shows, the State Department again refused to comply with that legislation.

All the opposition to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital started with the appeasement of the Arabs who threatened to cut off the West’s oil supply. Now the opposition is a bid to appease the Palestinians in their demand for a state of their own with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Justice Anthony Kennedy speaking for the majority said that the president has the exclusive power to recognize foreign nations, and that the power to determine what a passport says is part of this power.

Chief Justice John Roberts said in dissent that “The court takes the perilous step — for the first time in our history — of allowing the president to defy an act of Congress in the field of foreign affairs.”

I have long maintained that America’s liberal Jews were no friends of Israel. While they say that they support Israel, their support is tepid and they blame Israel for causing today’s increase in anti-Semitism.

By their ruling in the Zivotofsky case, the court’s three Jewish justices – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan – have demonstrated that they are enemies of Israel! If the three Jewish justices were to have had dual citizenships, they would have been considered traitors by the Israelis.