Zionism

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  12/12/2021
  

  Haaretz Editorial: Israel Must Acknowledge War Crimes in 1948 Fight for Independence

  "It is time to acknowledge the truth, and first to publish the report by the first attorney general, Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira, on the massacres of the dark autumn of 1948... and to hold a penetrating public discussion of their implications today."

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/19/2021
  

  "This Obstinate Little Man": Tom Segev on Ben-Gurion as the King Lear of Zionism

  "Ben-Gurion was not a saint and should not be made into one posthumously. An unvarnished account of his vices is essential, but so is an appreciation of his merits." A reviewer says Tom Segev's new biography sheds little light on his influence over the Zionist movement and the Israeli state.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  7/4/2021
  

  History Is a Story that Satisfies Power: A Conversation with Joshua Cohen (Author of "The Netanyahus")

  Joshua Cohen's novel fictionalizes the American academic career of Benzion Netanyahu, whose American raised sons became huge figures in Israeli military and political history.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/24/2021
  

  Israel’s Problems Are Not Like America’s

  by Matti Friedman

  American supporters and critics have tended to view Israel through a lens shaped by American political concerns. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/20/2021
  

  In Israel, the Violent Legacy of 1948

  by Benny Morris

  "The chaos in the towns of Lydda, Ramle, Haifa, Umm al-Fahm and Acre is a dim echo of the civil war between Palestine’s Jewish and Arab communities that engulfed the country during the first months of the 1948 war."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  4/6/2021
  

  Philanthropy and the “Jewish Continuity Crisis”

  by Hadas Binyamini

  The particular focus of some large Jewish philanthropic organizations on promoting Zionism and denouncing intermarriage reflects changes in the broader philanthropic universe: private wealth supplanting the welfare state, and rules encouraging charities to invest and amass wealth, and the focus on nuclear families as social units.

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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.