Zionism 
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/9/2022
Walter Russell Mead: Non-Jewish Interest Groups, not "Israel Lobby" Drive Hawkish US Mideast Policy
Rejecting the idea of a Jewish-led "Israel Lobby" Mead emphasizes the historical influence of American Christian zionists and militarists in tilting America's mideast policy toward the goals of the Israeli right.
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SOURCE: Tablet
6/6/2022
Two Books on Israeli Nationalism Show a Growing Divide on Zionism in America
by Ari Hoffman
Books by Omri Boehm and Yossi Shain take diametrically opposed positions on the historical and contemporary merits of Zionism as institutionalized in the Israeli state, and signal the growth of a polarization in the American Jewish community.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/10/2022
Two Donor Controversies Show the Precarious Position of Jewish Studies Programs
Financially precarious academic programs are potentially at the mercy of politically motivated donors whose philanthropy is subsidized by the tax code and affects public institutions without public input.
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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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