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Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…erence. In one sense, when I depart I am going toward this goal; but I travel alone, and in Atlanta, for example, no one really knows why I am wearing white. It’s just an outfit. But when you’re together with others in white—and particularly the men in their two unstitched white cloths—there at the waiting area for the flight to Jeddah, you’re visibly traveling for hajj. I am with them. They are with me and we are part of what will eventually swar…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…lon and Danon videos, Caner took the stage — or rather, pulpit — at Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church and claimed that his Muslim upbringing taught him to hate the Jews. Now, as a Christian, he sees the light. “We fight not just against theology,” he intoned, “we fight against global racism.” For Caner, Jews and Christians are alike, they share a common heritage and a common future. “As one who was raised to hate them,” he continued, “I s…

Chicago Synagogue Excoriated For Shift From ‘Non’ to ‘Anti’ Zionism — Maybe the Problem isn’t the ‘Anti’ But the ‘Zionism’

By Shaul Magid

…following statement: While we appreciate the important role of the land of Israel in Jewish tradition, liturgy and identity, we do not celebrate the fusing of Judaism with political nationalism…We are anti-Zionist, openly acknowledging that the creation of an ethnic Jewish nation-state in historic Palestine resulted in an injustice against the Palestinian people – an injustice that continues to this day. The fusion of Judaism and nationalism is an…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…or American Progress and Media Matters for America; how issues relating to Israel-Palestine get discussed among American Jews; and Wildman’s excellent piece about the web magazine 972, published in the current issue of the Nation. (I reported on the campaign against CAP and MMFA when it emerged in December.) Relatedly, Connie Bruck lays bare the ECI agenda, and points out that the notion that Media Matters’ M.J. Rosenberg, who has used the term “I…

Rather Than Attack Amnesty For Labeling Israel an Apartheid State Critics Could Address the Actual Problems

By Joshua Shanes

…national has just released a new, comprehensive report on the situation in Israel/Palestine. Like earlier reports from Human Rights Watch, Yesh Din, and B’Tselem—leading human rights groups documenting Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians along with Palestinian organizations like Al-Haq and Al Mezan—Amnesty has concluded that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid, a category of international law named after the old South African system but…

Presbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment

By Jay Michaelson

Many religious progressives don’t know what to do about Israel. This is what I’ve learned as I’ve crisscrossed the country talking with them: they’re gravely concerned about Israeli policies in (choose your political designation) the West Bank/the Occupied Territories/Occupied Palestine, but they’re also aware that the situation is extraordinarily complex, and that they risk alienating Jewish allies—and even engaging in anti-Semitism—if they miss…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…the March of the Living, designed to highlight Jewish resilience and survival along the path where thousands of Jews were killed during Nazi death marches in the 1940s. Progressive Jewish activists such as ourselves have long expressed discomfort over the nationalist, militarist version of Holocaust memory on display at the March of the Living. This year, however, we were doubly concerned when headlines briefly declared that prominent Christian Zi…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…tively secular, he was astonished. This ‘‘biblical’’ reading of modern Israel also surfaced in American popular culture. Ten years after Israel’s establishment and five years after Truman’s Cyrus comment, Leon Uris published his novel Exodus, which became a great American bestseller. Within two years of its publication, Exodus was made into a successful Hollywood film by director Otto Preminger. One of the novel’s two central protagonists, Kitty F…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…till focuses on that ancient dichotomy of good and evil, reflected in the falsely stark choice between Democrats and Republicans. AIPAC and other lobby groups know this and they intentionally try to manipulate this system. If this op-ed by Forward editor Batya Ungar-Sargon, who writes that “AIPAC is the last vestige of a better America, a bipartisan America, an America that knows how to put aside its differences and get things done,” is any indica…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…with boots on the ground or tons of guns. The problem is, we have no crystal ball. We can destroy Qaddafi’s armor, but he will have forces operating within cities, and those most loyal to him may fight to the bitter end (see also: Iraq). The rebels don’t have any military capacity, and Qaddafi’s army could as of now easily wipe them out. It is plausible that Qaddafi’s tribesmen may still reach Benghazi, at which point we will have to escalate o…