Middle East “Middle Eastern states are imploding and exploding all around, and what is coming to replace them is, interestingly, not nationalism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 April 2015 Regionally — we are, finally, witnessing the collapse of the nation state order put...
Israel “Israel has been for several years in the midst of a wonderful and creative Golden Age…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 April 2015 …I want to tell you in case you have not heard, that for decades...
Israel, Politics in Israel “It is impossible to answer “who is Israel” without examining and understanding the shared traumas that Israelis experienced in the last four years” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2015 In 1993 they opened their ears to peace with PLO leader Yasser Arafat (the...
Jewish, Zionism “Zionism was not the only program on offer to ameliorate Jewish disability” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2015 Zionism was not the only program on offer to ameliorate Jewish disability. It was...
Politics in Israel “In order to win the battle for the soul of Israel, the Israeli center-left must redefine itself…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 April 2015 In order to win the battle for the soul of Israel, the Israeli center-left...
Politics in Israel “For many on the left, talk of Jewish identity provokes discomfort…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2015 For many on the left, talk of Jewish identity provokes discomfort. Particular identity arouses...
Jewish, Zionism “So while many Zionists often relate to the Jewish people as an object with a problem…, I relate to my people as a subject with desires” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 March 2015 I honestly don’t feel myself motivated by Jewish suffering so much as by what...
Israel “…what identity do we have left as an American Jewish community and what ability do we have to form any of our own opinions about how the Jewish state acts in our name?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 March 2015 When even ostensibly liberal Jewish organizations with inarguably progressive domestic legislative agendas can’t say...
Zionism “The perceived failure of Western European nation states to accommodate the Jews gave rise to the political Zionism…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 March 2015 The perceived failure of Western European nation states to accommodate the Jews gave rise...
Israel, Politics in America “…inextricably linked the cause of Zionism to the politics of the conservative right, thereby shifting Zionist discourse towards increasingly extreme ends” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 March 2015 The abandonment of the two-state formula and the refusal to condemn racist incitement from...