Giuliani adviser Daniel Pipes (writing in Jerusalem) and I are in complete agreement: Zionism is in crisis. Zionism suited the spirit of its times. Zionism arose from real conditions in Europe and spoke to the soul of American Eastern-European Jewry). Zionism has lost its moral heart even to young Israelis, who are avoiding military service. Zionism seems completely out of step with today’s world. Only 17 percent of American Jews call themselves Zionist. Pipes’s response is militant conservative nationalism. Mine is: History is a progressive force, let’s go with the flow!
(By the way, in this piece Pipes purposefully ignores Walt/Mearsheimer in making a list of distressing developments. As Pipes has stated on his website, this is tactical, aimed at depriving them of prominence– and for a historian, completely intellectually dishonest. W/M are a more significant factor in Zionism’s crisis than Avram Burg’s recent defection).
