Zionism – Excerpted

“Zionism leverages the bravery of the Hasmoneans, but tries to get us to forget the corruption and decline of their ruling class once empowered…”

12 July 201729 August 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

Zionism — and, here, I mean especially the muscular Zionism of the Six-Day War, the Zionism of power and permanence, with its hints of completing the narrative of Jewish unsettledness—asks so much of us. This[…]

“Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in the 1967 war, is the strangest hybrid of all”

10 July 20174 July 2017 Drew KaplanZionism

Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in the 1967 war, is the strangest hybrid of all. An ideology that seeks to bridge traditional, lived Judaism and the political[…]

“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”

27 June 201726 June 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required to attend to it cements his bona fides in making this argument, which is the strongest I know against the moral[…]

“There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to be distancing themselves from Israel”

20 June 201712 June 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to be distancing themselves from Israel. Is it the policies of the government and the cover given to them by the Jewish[…]

“The people of Israel will not prove itself worthy of its land by listing more companies on NASDAQ or with an increased number of start-ups…”

28 May 201726 May 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

The State of Israel exists, first and foremost, as the nation-state of the Jewish people, not because the Jewish people is particularly deserving or fit for it, but by the grace of God toward a[…]

“The Zionist movement succeeded in creating a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel over sixty years ago”

10 May 20179 May 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

The Zionist movement succeeded in creating a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel over sixty years ago. Its current challenge is to become a truly liberal democratic country of all its[…]

“…for those who believe that a two-state solution is in the best interest of Israel, the Palestinians and the world, how exactly is one able to oppose settlement expansion without being labeled anti-Israel?”

2 May 20172 May 2017 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

For progressively-minded Zionists, our love for Israel is not the same as blanket support for every policy of Israel’s government. There are times — be it on matters of religious pluralism or, in the case[…]

“…by denying liberal principles, Zionism immediately becomes continuous with…the anti-Semitic politics of the sort promoted by the alt-right”

27 December 201621 December 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

…by denying liberal principles, Zionism immediately becomes continuous with — rather than contradictory to — the anti-Semitic politics of the sort promoted by the alt-right. The idea that Israel is the Jews’ own ethnic state[…]

“…the comparison between the alt-right’s white-Christian ethnic politics and the Jewish State is not just misleading, but sinister”

21 December 201621 December 2016 Drew KaplanIsrael

It is important to emphasize that, in some crucial respects, the comparison between the alt-right’s white-Christian ethnic politics and the Jewish State is not just misleading, but sinister. The history of the Jews — a[…]

“Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity”

30 November 201629 November 2016 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity. That’s especially true today, as a rising Orthodox[…]

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“Zionism leverages the bravery of the Hasmoneans, but tries to get us to forget the corruption and decline of their ruling class once empowered…”

“Religious Zionism, the brand of Zionism that benefited the most from the triumph in the 1967 war, is the strangest hybrid of all”

“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”

“There are a lot of vigorously debated hypotheses about why American Jews appear to be distancing themselves from Israel”

“The people of Israel will not prove itself worthy of its land by listing more companies on NASDAQ or with an increased number of start-ups…”

“The Zionist movement succeeded in creating a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel over sixty years ago”

“…for those who believe that a two-state solution is in the best interest of Israel, the Palestinians and the world, how exactly is one able to oppose settlement expansion without being labeled anti-Israel?”

“…by denying liberal principles, Zionism immediately becomes continuous with…the anti-Semitic politics of the sort promoted by the alt-right”

“…the comparison between the alt-right’s white-Christian ethnic politics and the Jewish State is not just misleading, but sinister”

“Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity”