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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…rld-building questions that comes up in a story like this: If the state of Israel still exists, but Palestine is taken, where would Israel go? The idea of giving them part of Germany as reparations for the Holocaust struck me as a plausible enough choice that also allowed for some interesting parallels to what happened in the real world. And once you eliminate the land dispute with the Palestinians and get rid of the Middle Eastern dictators for w…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…cording to Pew, while 55% of Americans as a whole have a favorable view of Israel, that number jumps to 80% among White evangelicals. And further, among evangelicals who support Israel, up to 50% have suggested End Times prophecies are part of their motivation. There are surely some whose uncritical support of Israel is motivated by End Times prophecies, though there’s significant disagreement on that point. What I would argue instead is that Chri…

Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…d Coming of Christ, and in the real world would otherwise not be “good for Israel.” (Hagee, too, is hailed as “pro-Israel,” despite his apocalyptic scenario in which Jews die or convert to Christianity. Block, when he worked at AIPAC, dismissed concerns about Hagee’s theology as fantasy that would never come to pass, thereby justifying embracing his support.) Elliott’s explosive story lays bare the McCarthy-esque tactics the supposedly “pro-Israe…

The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…ment of 50,000, as if the faithful at church. The devotion was audible, as tickets were distributed to friends of the Cuban government and not through a public sale. Here the religious nature of the Cuban sporting event is acknowledged only to be dismissed as inauthentic. The patriotic, quasi-religious crooning is suspicious because of its apparent production by the Cuban government, which distributed tickets to friends. Morosi recognizes religiou…

Why the Obama/Hillary Clinton Approach to Middle East Peace is Doomed to Failure

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…the Israeli army to crisscross the Palestinian state in order to safeguard Israeli settlements and the 400,000 Israelis who will continue to live in them. The state thus created will resemble a patchwork of little city-state cantons that will not look or feel to Palestinians to be a real state. And while the weak Palestinian Authority may grasp at any straw it is offered, and hence accept an arrangement of this sort, the vast majority of Palestini…

RDPulpit: Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…her voices in the Arab and Islamic world, conflate legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies with an assault on Israel’s existence; an error which becomes even more outrageous when linked to a denial of the Holocaust or the anti-Semitism that led to the flight of some one million Jews from Arab countries between 1947 and 1967. When Prime Minister Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, and other right-wing extremists are able to point to this irrational hat…

Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…on—billionaire supporter of the Israeli Right and publisher of the hawkish Israeli tabloid Yisrael Shelanu (Our Israel)—was just given another $5 million by Dr. Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson’s wife. As the Times noted “Dr. Adelson’s check will bring the couple’s total contributions to Winning Our Future to $10 million, a figure that could substantially neutralize the millions of dollars already being spent in Florida by Mr. Romney and Restore…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o social mores. Israel: American Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ in Israel JONAH, a Jewish “reparative therapy” group that had been based in New Jersey has “found a haven for their work in Israel.” JONAH was shut down “for violating New Jersey consumer fraud laws by claiming therapy could ‘heal’ homosexuality.” More from Daniel Estrin at the Associated Press: Israel’s Health Ministry advises against so-called “gay conversion” or “reparative…

The Conflation of Antisemitism and Israel Criticism Isn’t Unique, But It Is a Problem

By Elizabeth Shively

…finition anti-Semitic to criticize the Jewish state, then any criticism of Israel is forcibly anti-Semitic. The Israeli state has every reason to support this narrative, and it does so wholeheartedly. Israel has created a legal and sociological reality that reproduces a discriminatory religio-national hierarchy. It inoculates itself against criticism with the argument that it is anti-Semitic to acknowledge—not to mention criticize—that hierarchy b…

How 95% of Jewish Israelis Support a ‘Plausible’ Genocide

By Zachary Foster

…After all, in his 10-page opinion on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, Israeli judge Aharon Barak claimed that it was in the “DNA of the Israeli military” to abide by international humanitarian law. In other words, Barak’s argument was not that Israel has not been committing atrocities, his argument was that Israel cannot commit atrocities. It’s a sort of impossibility. There is at least one obvious reason the “IDF are the good guys” m…