Tag Archives: Dual Loyalty

Cantor pledges Republicans will stand with Israel against Obama (btw, Cantor is Jewish, does that matter?)

There is a justifiable uproar over the fact that Eric Cantor, the Republican whip, has pledged his party’s greater allegiance to Netanyahu than Obama [quotes below]. Andrew Sullivan calls it a “scandal.” Jim Traub at Foreign Policy asks, “Did Bibi … Continue reading

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My mixed loyalties

I have two parents.  My father is America and my mother is Israel.   In 1973 I was in Israel for the Yom Kippur war and the experience convinced me to toss in my lot with Israel: join the army and suffer … Continue reading

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‘Haaretz’ author says that Diaspora Jews have dual loyalty

You’d never see this in the New York Times, alas. Because dual loyalty is an antisemitic canard, right? In Haaretz, intern Bianca Ambrosio says the obvious, that Jews in Italy have dual loyalty, acting politically out of concern for Israel. … Continue reading

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Feeling the loyalty to the Jewish state

The Israeli Knesset is debating a bill proposed by David Rotem of the extreme right Yisrael Beiteinu party that would require all Israeli citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.” This bill is targeted at … Continue reading

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Snippets of my youthful Zionist indoctrination

Political and military Zionism indoctrination snippets from my childhood: – I went to a Conservative Synagogue starting at age six, where we sang "The Blue and the White are Colors of Mine" while saluting an Israeli flag. Afterwards I asked … Continue reading

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