ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt attacked anti-Zionists in an address at the organization’s annual National Leadership Summit but barely mentioned far-right antisemitism.
A conversation between two leading U.S. rabbis show how strong the red lines still are in the organized Jewish community with regard to Israel.
Early Zionism sought to reform the “Ghetto Jew” into the secular Zionist militant. But now the new Israeli government not only wants to push society to the right, but to dismantle its secularism as well.
The ADL’s annual audit on antisemitism in the U.S. offers a distorted view of the issue because the group counts anti-Zionist protests against Israel as antisemitic acts.
The Balad-Tajammu’ party says the current Israeli protest movement is fighting for a fake democracy for Jews only. How sobering it is that this view is considered so radical it is beyond the pale for Israeli politics.
Israeli demonstrations have been Zionist-only. If Israeli liberals cannot make common cause with Palestinians, they will go extinct and have only themselves to blame. They will have thrown in with a rampaging society in the name of Jewish supremacy.
Phil Weiss speaks to Tony Greenstein about his new book, “Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation”.
The American Bar Association passed a resolution condemning antisemitism but removed a reference to the controversial IHRA definition from its text.
Israel’s new far-right government is pushing more and more to criticize the country, but the Palestine solidarity movement cannot sacrifice core values for political expediency.
The Israeli slide to religious fundamentalism and ultranationalism has made more people realize that many Jews oppose Zionism not out of “self-hate,” but because we believe in the equality of all human beings.