Tag Archives: The Crisis of Zionism

Peter Beinart’s cognitive dissonance on ‘threats to Israel’s demographics’

Michael Lerner and Peter Beinart seek to preserve Israel’s Jewish majority from the right of return

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Beinart’s Blindspot: Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state

Beinart’s new book to be brave, important, and blinkered all at once. The biggest problem is Beinart’s false, idealized image of pre-1967 Israel as a “flawed, but genuine democracy.” This doesn’t work because even within the green line Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state.

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If you deduct the Israelites, Pharaoh’s Egypt was actually a marvelous country

Bibi Netanyahu says if you deduct the Palestinians, Israel is actually a very equal country

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