Zionism

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  11/15/2020
  

  Dozens Of Academics Oppose New Controversial Yad Vashem Chair

  Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt is among the academics criticizing the appointment of a right-wing politician to head the Israeli Holocaust memorial and educational center, arguing that his remarks toward Palestinians and Arab Israelis are disqualifying. 

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  11/8/2020
  

  Revered Polish Jew, Holocaust Survivor Joins Protests Over Top Appointment at Yad Vashem

  A prominent Polish Holocaust survivor has objected to the appointment of Effi Eitam, an Israeli politician and former military commander, to chair the directorate of the Holocaust memorial because of inflammatory statements calling for the deportation of Palestinans from the West Bank and calling Arab Israelis a "fifth column." 

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• 7/5/2020
  

  Annexation Will Be the (Formal) Beginning of Apartheid and the End of Zionism

  by Andrew Seth Meyer

  An American historian and lifelong liberal Zionist concludes that Israel's planned annexation of West Bank territory will force people of conscience to choose between liberal ideals and a form of Zionism harnessed to ethnic nationalism.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Israel and the Palestinians: Architects of Their Own Destruction

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The political positions of Israeli and Palestinian leadership set the region on a path toward more bloodshed. 

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• 5/31/2020
  

  The Decline and Fall of Socialist Zionism (Review)

  by Ralph Seliger

  A new book examines the diminished influence of left and labor parties in Israeli politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/7/2020
  

  Daniel Pipes Argues Annexing the West Bank Would Hurt Israel

  Daniel Pipes, prominent conservative American commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, gives six reasons to believe that taking over Palestinian territory would harm both U.S.-Israel relations and Israel’s status as the Jewish state.

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• 4/17/2020
  

  The Saudis, the Jews, and FDR's Dog: The Opening of the US-Saudi Relationship

  by Rafael Medoff

  Recent commemorations of FDR's diplomatic meeting with King Abdul Aziz in 1945 obscure unsavory aspects of the origins of the US-Saudi relationship. 

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  4/13/2020
  

  How Hitler's World War II Weapons Helped Israel Win Independence

  And here is where the other odd twist of fate happened: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin provided the arms.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  When the Western Wall Was A Battleground For Jewish Rights

  by Moshe Phillips

  The book explains how Segal and the others who followed in his footsteps transformed the Western Wall from a site of wailing to one of national pride.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  4-3-18
  

  Gil Troy says Jews need to reclaim the word Zionism

  by Gil Troy

  Even if it doesn't poll well. 

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  4-5-17
  

  Jeremy Corbyn faces mutiny within Labour as Ken Livingstone escapes expulsion over Hitler comments

  The former mayor of London refused to apologise after a disciplinary panel found him guilty of bringing the party into disrepute – but failed to expel him, instead ruling he will be suspended from holding office for a year.

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• 3-7-17
  

  Yes, Churchill Really Was a Friend of the Jews and Zionism

  by Daniel Mandel

  Claims that he wasn’t ignore mounds of evidence uncovered in recent years.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  9-20-16
  

  Berkeley Reinstates ‘Zionism-is-Colonialism’ Course After Free Speech Outcry

  The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after public outcry over its suspension last week.

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• 8-29-16
  

  The Roar that Major Jewish Groups Now Hear Is from the Grass Roots

  by Edwin Black

  Not since the 1930s have Jewish groups proliferated as they have now in response to different approaches to the issues facing Jews.

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• 9-6-16
  

  What Should We Make of Two Distinguished American-Jewish Historians Rejecting Zionism?

  by Ralph Seliger

  Here’s why I think they’re wrong.

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
  8-8-16
  

  Professor: Why Jewish historians should stand behind Zionism

  by Guy Alroey

  Hasia Diner’s op ed declaring her hostility to Zionism is challenged by another Jewish scholar.

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• SOURCE: Israel National News
  8-2-16
  

  Hasia Diner, former Fulbright Professor at the University of Haifa, says Zionism is a “naive delusion”

  She stopped being a Zionist in 2010.

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• SOURCE: Fathom Journal
  6-14-16 (accessed)
  

  Former London Mayor Ken Livingston’s favorite “historian” is an Orthodox Jew turned Marxist, Lenni Brenner

  Livingston’s claim that Hitler was a Zionist is based on a book Brenner wrote in the 1980s, “Zionism in the Age of Dictators"

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• SOURCE: Travaux: The Berkeley Journal of International Law Blog
  3-31-15
  

  Forty Years to the Zionism Equals Racism Resolution

  by Dr. Yoav Tenembaum

  Forty years ago this year, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted a resolution equating Zionism with racism and racial discrimination.

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  3-23-15
  

  Plan Bibi

  by Andrew Meyer

  The most recent Israeli election compels Zionists to examine our principles.