admin | August 19, 2017
This article was originally published here on Salon.com on Sunday, August 13, 2017. Is Zionism creepy?
admin | August 18, 2017
by Martin J. Raffel Special to NJJN August 16, 2017 Some six years ago, while in Jerusalem, I found myself discussing with colleagues whether we should drop the term Zionism from our lexicon because it had become so toxic, especially on university campuses.
richards | August 18, 2017
For a long time, liberalism and Zionism have gotten along fine in America just look at the Democratic Party and its love for Israel. But Charlottesville represents a crisis for liberal Zionists.
simmons | August 18, 2017
TEL AVIV (JTA) White nationalist leader Richard Spencer told Israelis during an evening TV interview that they should respect him because he is essentially a white Zionist. Spencer made the comment Wednesday on Channel 2 in response to a question about how he should feel about the anti-Semitism on display over the weekend at the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
richards | August 17, 2017
Zionism is a movement that seeks a spiritual and national restoration of Israel, the land of the Jewish people. Specifically, Zionists believe that the Jews have a divine right to the real estate it formerly possessed during the reign of King Solomon, based on the promises that God made to Abraham in the book of Genesis: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites. (Gen.
simmons | August 17, 2017
I spent the last week in Basel, Switzerland where in 1897 Theodor Herzl officially inaugurated the Zionist movement when he convened the First Zionist Congress. One of the first places I visited was the Three Kings Hotel. It was Herzls home while in Basel and I wanted to see the balcony from where he posed looking over the Rhine, ostensibly thinking about the millions of Jews suffering under pogroms in Europe and who would need the refuge he would describe in his manifesto, called (in German) Der Judenstaat or the Jewish State.
simmons | August 17, 2017
Illustrative. Photo: Hynek Moravec via Wikimedia Commons
simmons | August 16, 2017
Its difficult to fit 2 years of experience in Israel advocacy into these brief words.
admin | August 16, 2017
Ali Abunimah Lobby Watch 15 August 2017 Pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Adelson, center, and his wife Miriam speak with Trump advisor Steve Bannon at the presidents inauguration on 20 January 2017. A much-discussed article in The New York Times about pressure on President Donald Trump to fire his advisor Steve Bannon contains this intriguing sentence: Mr.
richards | August 16, 2017
Berl Katznelson 88 224. (photo credit:Courtesy) Israel marks special days in honor of Zionist visionaries Theodor Herzl and Zeev Jabotinsky and must do the same for Labor Zionism intellectual founder Berl Katznelson, his intellectual heirs in the Labor Party and the Berl Katznelson Education Center said Wednesday, on the eve of the 73rd anniversary of Katznelsons death on the Jewish calendar. A ceremony at his grave on the Sea of Galilee will be held Thursday on the anniversary, but under a bill that will be proposed by Zionist Union faction head Merav Michaeli, Katznelson Day would be marked every year by teaching his legacy at schools nationwide
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