There’s a Zionist Election, and it’s Gotten Ugly – Jewish Week
admin | January 8, 2020
Did you know there was a Zionist Supreme Court in Jerusalem? Neither did I.
admin | January 8, 2020
Did you know there was a Zionist Supreme Court in Jerusalem? Neither did I.
admin | January 8, 2020
Its become conventional wisdom to point out that the old wall of Arab anti-Zionism has fractured. I have done so myself. But lingering hostility against Israel could explode anew.A brief history of Arab attitudes toward the Jewish state puts this danger in context:For about 20 years, 1910-30, enmity toward Zionists was a local fracas of little interest to other Arabic-speakers
admin | January 8, 2020
Photo Credit: Dana Friedman My good friend and renowned Lower East Side standup comic Dana Friedman posted these images she took of a group of sign-carrying Neturei Karta men who stood at the edge of Sundays anti-anti-Semitism rally downtown. Dana wrote: These guys were protesting the unity rally. Thats JUST this one little group, not representative of all Chassidic Jews.
admin | January 8, 2020
In 2020, hatred of Jews will continue to manifest itself as the lines blur between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
admin | January 8, 2020
ZionistHistoryBookOfTheMonth for January 2020 By: Moshe Phillips This Hebrew month, Tevet, marks the 24th anniversary of the death of Dr. Israel Eldad, Zionist philosopher, confidant of Menachem Begin, and co-leader with Yitzhak Shamir of a 1940s Zionist paramilitary organization that fought against the British army.
admin | January 8, 2020
Since its inception at the end the 19th century, the Zionist movement has sought to transform the nature of European Jewish identity and the relationship between Jews and the modern movement of antisemitism. The two movements share the understanding that it is not racism and chauvinism that causes antisemitism; instead, they outrageously claim it is caused by the very presence of Jews in gentile societies - a position that the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, insisted upon in his writings.
admin | January 8, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeos announcement last November that the U.S. would no longer consider it illegal for Israelis to reside in the West Bank brought widespread condemnationsome of it from mainstream Jewish leaders and organizations
admin | January 8, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) A Trump administration official went to a conference in Hungary on persecuted Christians in part to remind attendees that Jews also face threats, but someone else did the job for her. Bonnie Glick, the deputy administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, was horrified at a 13-minute speech by Gebran Bassil, the Lebanese foreign minister, who claimed that Israel is a malign theocracy akin to the Islamic State and Al Qaeda
admin | January 2, 2020
Its the most famous poster for an election youve never heard of.
admin | January 2, 2020
For more than a half-century, public debate in Israel has been dominated by two large sets of issues: externally, how to work for peace while maintaining maximum security; domestically, how to navigate the relationship between religion and state. But when it came to social and economic policy, debate gave way to across-the-board consensus: for decades, it was taken largely for granted that welfare-state economics and heavy government regulation made up the sine qua non of the good society. The past few years, however, have seen a subtle yet quite dramatic change.