Posts Tagged: Israel Jewish State
The Sacred and the Subverted: Resisting the Weaponization of Faith Against Israel’s Right to Exist
In a world that is increasingly polarized, few tactics are as dangerous as the deliberate perversion of sacred texts to undermine legitimate national existence and...
Amnesty’s Blinkered Anti-Zionism Is a Recipe for Disaster
JNS.org - “The right of people to self-determination is something I believe in … but we are opposed to the idea that Israel should be...
‘The Guardian’ Jumps on the Anti-Zionist Bandwagon
In the course of only a week, The Guardian has published three pieces legitimizing or promoting the end of the Jewish state. On July 15, we...
The End of Israel and Peter Beinart as the Last Man
Like the moon, Peter Beinart follows a predictable cycle. You won’t hear about him for months. But the more he’s ignored, the more his rhetoric...
2010 Peter Beinart Condemns Himself as Anti-Israel
Daniel Paul Rubenstein found an interview that Jeffrey Goldberg did with Peter Beinart when he released his Crisis of Zionism book. (I’m sure that a new...
The ‘No Jewish State’ Solution
Pundits and policymakers act as though solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is like playing Risk. They manufacture formulas with the single-minded purpose of arriving at a...
The Struggle for Israel’s Jewish Soul
From its outset, the Zionist movement was committed to full civil and religious equality for the non-Jewish minority in the future Jewish state (as stipulated...
The Assault on Israel as the ‘Jewish State’
JNS.org - Many (too many) years ago, Sari Nusseibeh and I debated in the studio of Israel’s television Channel 1, before there was a Channel...
Why the Arrest of This Palestinian Leader Matters
JNS.org - You have probably never heard the name Hussam Khader. But you should. Because what’s happening to him has extremely important ramifications for Israel and...
If You Will It, It Is No Dream… but Only on Our Terms
In his address to the Zionist Congress in London on August 2, 1900, Theodor Herzl said: Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured home in...
A Candid Look at Israel’s Nation-State Law
The controversial Nation-State Law that just passed in Israel is typical of what I do not like about nationalism. The bill was passed by a vote...
Ronald Lauder Loses the Plot
Ronald Lauder is a billionaire and respected art collector who became passionately committed to Jewish life. As US ambassador to Austria, he witnessed virulent antisemitism....
Why Israel Needs the Nation-State Law
Much has been published against the new Israeli Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. Many, both in Israel and abroad, ask:...
Looking Candidly at Israel’s Nation-State Law
It is inevitable -- and laudable -- that there are debates and differences over most new legislation. However, that does not justify the global hysteria...
