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

By Shaul Magid

…cal reality called Israel. And here anti-Zionists are not necessarily anti-Israel. Israel is a nation-state. Zionism is an ideology. Many anti-Zionists would support the state of Israel if it were not based on what Chaim Ganz calls “proprietary Zionism”; that is, that the land of Israel, all of it, belongs to the Jews as a foundation of its political program and the starting point of any kind of negotiation. Why so defensive? Some anti-Zionists be…

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

By Joshua Shanes

…own. Amnesty goes beyond some earlier reports, however, in documenting how Israel has been engaging in some of these crimes since its foundation. They call for Israel to reform itself to be in compliance with international law and to offer justice to its past victims. As expected, the Israeli government and American Jewish organizations parroting its talking points attacked the organization as “antisemitic” and its report as “libelous,” cheapening…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…ity on the ground there and what Wildman has called a “mythical” vision of Israel as the land of milk and honey. Remnick: Although Israel as imagined by Theodor Herzl and built by the generation of David Ben-Gurion was never intended to be a replica of the Anglo-American model—its political culture, even now, is closer to that of the European social democracies—its structures of governance are points of pride. And yet, as an experiment in Jewish p…

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

…t their national identity, then their lives—but this didn’t stop far-right Israeli outlets like Israel Hayom from celebrating Evans’ bid to lead the event commemorating these Jewish victims of German fascism, over seven decades later. Before he embraced Christian Zionism in the 1980s, Mike Evans led missionaries to convert Jews to Christianity. In the 1970s, Evans was the leader of Bnai Yeshua, an organization of ‘Jewish Christians’ that rivaled J…

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

By Nylah Burton

…ng Israel means supporting Netanyahu and the occupation, and that opposing Israel means destroying Israel in every way. It’s clear that there’s willful obfuscating of nuance in those conversations. It’s also about race… how do we think about antisemitism when it’s a white person talking?” Many Democrats simply refuse to hear complaints of their antisemitism, because they feel that as long as they support Israel, they can’t truly be antisemitic. Wh…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…se, his funeral last October was the largest in the country’s history, with 800,000 Israelis attending. In the past month, Rabbi Noam Perel, head of Bnei Akiva, the largest Jewish religious youth group in the world, called for the mass-murder of Palestinians and for their foreskins to be scalped and brought back as trophies, alluding to an episode in the Book of Samuel; and a Jerusalem city councillor, in charge of security, encouraged a crowd to…

Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?

By Ira Chernus

…solution is apparently settled, the larger questions remain: Will Jews in Israel, and those around the world who care about Israel, continue to build Jewish life on the same old foundational myth? Or will the changes in policy open up room for a discussion of deeper changes in the myth itself? In Israel, the widespread approval of Netanyahu’s speech suggests that the myth remains healthy (though there is still, as there has always been, a signifi…

“American Values” and “Standing With Israel”

By Sarah Posner

…ident Obama. Citing 2 Chronicles 7:14, Benham prayed “for America, and for Israel, in Jesus’s name.” Praying for Israel, or the Jews, in Jesus’s name, is not unusual at Christian Zionist events. Christian Zionists have become accustomed to many pro-Israel Jews embracing their “support” for Israel in spite of it. No one at yesterday’s rally acknowledged that Israel’s chief rabbis, in a highly unusual move, recently have called on Jews to boycott an…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…was to no avail; clashes continued. According to Dr. Shmuel Bercovitz, an Israeli expert on religious sites in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the Palestinians are using Netanyah’s declaration for nationalistic purposes. “Palestinians are using religious fervor to ignite the masses in a national struggle,” said Bercovitz, author of Wars over the Holy Sites. “In Islam, religion and nationalism are intertwined together.” Bercovitz acknowled…