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Tag Archives: Zionism
Jabara’s classic ‘Zionism: Racism or Liberation?’ deserves a new life
Abdeen Jabara in ’76: “In the examination of any society, one must distinguish between discrimination as it exists between individual citizens or private parties, on the one hand, and discrimination as a part of public policy or state action, discrimination contained not just in the way the laws are applied but in the terms of the law itself…. The goal of constructing and maintaining a Jewish state made the ‘national’ discrimination a necessary part of the state itself”
Breivik manifesto outlines virulent right-wing ideology that fueled Norway massacre
A detailed manifesto reportedly written by the alleged perpetrator behind the Norway massacre was posted on the web yesterday by an American blogger. Titled “2083: A European Declaration of Independence,” it sheds significant light on the virulent and extreme right-wing, … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East
Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, Avigdor Lieberman, Ayoub Kara, Benjamin Netanyahu, Islamophobia, Norway, Zionism
43 Comments
Why Zionists promote anti-Muslim law enforcement trainings
Following the September 11 attacks, American tax dollars began to flow to local law enforcement agencies around the country in order to enlist law enforcement in the “war on terror.” The major consequence of this enlistment, as a report on … Continue reading
I been thru the desert with the JNF, it felt good to make it bloom
I think this is a setback. Yes, there’s no way to put a good face on this news. Dan Peek formerly of the band America has gone “rabidly Zionist.”
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged America, Dan Peek, I been thru the desert with the horse with no name, Zionism
18 Comments
Secular Herzl sought to use ‘mystic elements’ to bind Jews to a place they had no living connection to
I haven’t done many rambling posts lately because I haven’t had the time (and neither do you!). But here are a few thoughts on the impulses for Zionism: about Zionist leader Herzl’s colonialism and messianism, about the Jewish claim to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged colonialism, grandiosity, Herzl, messianism, noble failure, Shabbatai Zevi, the Jewish Question, Zionism
141 Comments
Imagine the Brookings Institution having a forum on the Future of the South in 1964 and inviting no black people
Truly demoralizing. Jim Crow is on the job in Washington, D.C. This is the Brookings Institution’s lineup for its recent conference on Hard Choices in the Israel/Palestine conflict. It shows how stifling the atmosphere is inside the Establishment when it … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Israel Lobby, Jim Crow, Palestinians, Saban Forum, Salam Fayyad, Zionism
6 Comments
The American Jewish belief in the endurance of anti-Semitism is at the core of the problem
Often I’ve wondered what perversity of character I must retain into middle age to want to talk openly about Jewish numbers in the Establishment. For instance, the fact that Jews from Mike Bloomberg to David Steiner to Shael Polakow-Suransky are … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Jewish success, Mike Bloomberg, psychosis, self-awareness, Zionism
91 Comments
Helen Thomas says Congress, White House, Hollywood and Wall Street are owned by Zionists
Who said there are only two acts in American lives? Helen Thomas keeps on going. Here she is in the Detroit Free Press saying that her firing has liberated her to speak the truth about Zionist influence. Apparently she gave … Continue reading
Some things just didn’t make sense
I grew up in the womb of the Jewish Community of Washington, D.C, studied at our Hebrew Academy (a school that my grandfather helped found), and worshiped at the Beth Shalom Orthodox Jewish synagogue. After marrying, I travelled to visit … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged American Council for Judaism, Jewish morality, non-Zionism, racism, Zionism
56 Comments
I am Zionism’s mandatory object. So don’t I get to define it?
There’s an excellent discussion of the ‘Zionism is racism’ question over at Jeremiah Haber’s site, The Magnes Zionist. Haber makes some very good points which are especially compelling since he – a multiculturalist who self-identifies as a Zionist – is … Continue reading
Zionism, discrimination, and racist intent
Jerry Slater constructs an artful but unconvincing defense against the charge that the Jewish State is inherently racist. He reasons that the preferences and privileges accorded to Jews over non-Jews in Israel/Palestine is founded upon genuine Jewish insecurity rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged discrimination, Holocaust, insecurity, intention, Jerome Slater, racism, superiority, Zionism
91 Comments
Michael Bloomberg and New York’s Muslims: a lesson in how Israel courses through Jewish-Muslim relations
Ever since Lawrence Swaim of the California-based Interfaith Freedom Foundation articulated his valuable insight to me that the question of Israel courses through Jewish-Muslim relations, I’ve been coming across stories that fit into that theme. In general, strong support for … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Politics
Tagged al-Samouni, Anti-Defamation League, Debbie Almontaser, Gaza, Gotham Gazette, Hamas, Interfaith Freedom Foundation, Islamic community center, Islamophobia, Jews, Khalil Gibran International Academy, Kiera Feldman, Lawrence Swaim, Michael Bloomberg, Middle East, Muslims, Operation Cast Lead, Park 51, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Zionism
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Q: Does Chomsky feel Jewish responsibility for Israel’s crimes?
Here is a great interview of the great Chomsky by David Samuels at Tablet, thoroughly exploring the roots of Chomsky’s ethnic/religious identification, which I think is largely unconscious for him. Samuels is uniquely positioned to do this, he comes out … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged David Samuels, Hebrew, Iraq war, Israel Lobby, Jewish power, neoconservatism, Noam Chomsky, Russia, Tablet, Yiddish, Zionism
63 Comments
If anti-semitism justifies ethnic cleansing, then what does anti-Palestinianism justify?
Jerome Slater tries to make the claim that Zionism isn’t racism. Many of the commenters who responded to his post presented more eloquent and knowledgeable arguments than I can, so I’ll keep it brief. According to Slater, Zionism isn’t racism … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Abraham Foxman, Ahmed Moor, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jerome Slater, Zionism
110 Comments
Slater says Jewish state is warranted by likelihood of recurrence of anti-Semitism
Jerome Slater has a provocative post saying that Israel’s demand that the Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state is not a deal-breaker. Weiss has pulled out a portion of his analysis, in which he seeks to answer the charge … Continue reading
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
In Israel, ‘likeminded’ people just like to live in the same neighborhood, and town too
Nathan Jeffay has a story in the Forward from Tel Aviv about a new bill, headed for passage, that would authorize housing-sale discrimination in certain small communities on the basis of “social suitability”– which seems to mean Jewish not Palestinian. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged discrimination, Israel, Joel Golovensky, Nathan Jeffay, Zionism
7 Comments
Would Julius and Ethel be Zionists had they lived?
The Nation has an excellent piece by Victor Navasky on the latest chapter in the Rosenberg saga– a new book that fingers Ethel Rosenberg’s brother and sister-in-law the Greenglasses as the spies. I will save you the details, it’s not … Continue reading
The fight has broken out inside the Jewish family
I announce landmarks every 100 yards, but the news from the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly in New Orleans, captured on the amazing video above, is a big one. Several young Jews calling themselves proud Jews took Palestinian solidarity into the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Emily Ratner, Israel Lobby, Jewish attitudes, Matthew Taylor, Netanyahu, Rae Abileah, young Jews, Zionism
29 Comments
You’d have to give Chris Matthews sodium pentathol to find out why we invaded Iraq
This is mind-numbing. Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews interviewed Joseph Wilson, Michael Isikoff, David Corn and Thomas DeFrank about Bush’s memoir. They harped on a lie in the book: Bush’s claim that he was upset when he learned that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bush memoir, Chris Matthews, David Corn, Iraq, Joseph Wilson, Mike Isikoff, neoconservatives, Points of Decision, sodium pentathol, Zionism
30 Comments
Wait– Zionist uses choke-hold on Netanyahu protester… a woman… in the USA?
Remember how that female protester being stomped became a giant issue in the Rand Paul campaign for Senate in Kentucky? Why isn’t the chokehold applied to Rae Abileah, a young woman protesting Netanyahu at the Federations General Assembly in New … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged choke hold, Israel Lobby, Jeff Shapira, Jewish Federations, Rand Paul, slavery, viral media, William Lloyd Garrison, Zionism
59 Comments
Major New Weblog Features: The Anti Hypocrite Tools
In celebration of the arrival of summer, a new set of Anti Hypocrite Tools. To help you catch bad faith contradictory comments.