“You say you don’t want to connect to Israel for x, y, and z reasons, but – tell me something: do you care about a conversation about Jews in power?”
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“Debates about Israel seem to be the precise place where “existential anxiety” stopped referring to philosophical angst and started referring to the fear your nation could be destroyed”
Our current use of “existential” is about as far removed from artsy-philosophical realms as...
“The phenomenon of a minority people arising out of the ashes of Auschwitz to reframe not only their world but to also profoundly impact the broader culture may best summarize this century of Jewish influence”
…out of the trauma and tragedy of the earlier decades of the 20th century,...
“The ‘most moral army in the world’ talking point is both substantively and tactically foolish, it convinces nobody…”
The IDF is not the most moral army in the world, because there is...
When Michael Oren shifted the definition of “existential”
In 2009, Michael B. Oren, soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States,...
“There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Balfour Declaration”
There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Declaration. U.S. President...
“…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel, that doesn’t mean the campus in question is “hostile” or “uncomfortable” for Jews”
…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel,...
“The existence of multiple moral frameworks with which to view the world is not a sign of confusion; it is a sign of sophistication and strength”
I recognize that there are those people, on the right and on the left,...
“How does our community, committed to Israel as well as a host of other social justice commitments, navigate collaboration with other faith and political leaders who not only oppose one critical piece of our community’s agenda but often even militate against it?”
How does our community, committed to Israel as well as a host of other...
“…by accusing Israel of ‘white supremacy’, the anti-Zionists sound like that old tongue-in-cheek definition of anti-Semitism…”
There are already enough reasons to be critical of Israel, if you are so...