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Netanyahu’s Speech, Lane’s Trip, and the Impossibility of Boycotts

By Sarah Posner

…talized on Democrats’ timidity by portraying anything remotely critical of Israel as anti-Israel (and, by extension, un-American) and anything questioning Netanyahu’s position on Iran as Chamberlain-esque appeasement. The “pro-Israel” camp vociferously opposes nuclear talks with Iran, and just as adamantly supports sanctions legislation. Therefore Netanyahu’s speech isn’t portrayed as a political ploy, but as a national security imperative, both f…

Obama’s Bunker-Busters to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…g with brimstone,” thus marking the beginning of his millennial reign. Of course Obama wasn’t motivated by Ezekiel’s war, but by political and national security calculations, whatever his lack of wisdom in carrying them out. And still, conservatives and Israel hawks hammer away at whether he is sufficiently “pro-Israel.” Will Hagee applaud the bunker-buster transfer, admitting that the Obama administration’s actions will lead to the war he’s been…

Hagee Hangs On

By Bill Berkowitz

…rned that the relationship between conservative Christian evangelicals and Israel was “a strangely exploitative” one. The acceptance of it, “pose[d] problems of principle for Jews and Israel, in return for an illusory short-term payoff.” Gorenberg wrote of the essential contradiction that informs the relationship: The Christian right’s view of Israel derives largely from a double-edged theological position. Following a classic anti-Jewish stance,…

Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

By Sarah Posner

…he Israel Democracy Institute’s monthly Peace Index poll found that 64% of Israelis (61% of Israeli Jews and 77% of Israeli Arabs) “think Netanyahu brought the Nation State Law to a vote mainly to boost his popularity with the right-wing and settlers.” “We must get back in power,” said Michaeli, and “we must legitimize attempts to reach a solution with the Palestinians.” She worried that the longer the conflict is unresolved, the more the conflict…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…e summarily dismissed, at least in the United States. The American fate of Israeli books critical of Israeli policies is predetermined: they are bound to fail—both in the actual marketplace, and in the marketplace of ideas. Israel’s Fateful Hour, a 1984 book by Yehoshafat Harkabi, the head of Israeli Military Intelligence in the 1950s, warned of the dire consequences for Israel of the longterm occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The book found n…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

…other alternatives of Jewish identity, disqualifying critics of Zionism or Israel as self-hating and most gentile critics of Israel as antisemitic. And wiping out all legitimate resistance from the Jewish camp makes Zionism, and the nation-state that embodies it, very dangerous. In addition, this hegemony effaces the complex nature of Zionism itself, it non-territorial claims, its binational aspirations (binationalism, now considered anti-Zionism…

Theology Fail in Christian Statement on Israel, Judaism, Palestine

By Adam Gregerman

…sraelis as Jews, they repeatedly re-apply God’s ethical demands of ancient Israelites to modern Israelis as Jews. In their view, Israelis do not just implement bad policies when judged by a secular standard; as Jews, they act in ways that “would deeply trouble Jesus and the prophets.” The authors’ explicitly religious argument only works in one direction: against Jews and Israel. It’s not criticism itself but this inconsistent application of relig…

Conservatives, Messianic Jews, and the Jews

By Sarah Posner

…important to consider and understand that a Christian can claim to be pro-Israel and a lover of the land Israel and the Jewish people, and still be an adversary of Judaism. And therein lies a very big problem. Finally, Jewish Israel highlights an issue that liberal American Jews have been raising for a long time, only to be dismissed by conservatives as insufficiently supportive of Israel and its evangelical allies. The uproar over Bush’s speech…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…rms. Both in private conversation and in his diary, Eisenhower referred to Israelis as ‘‘Israelites,’’ and it seems that he imagined that these modern Israelites were deeply religious. When an aide explained to the president that the Israeli leadership was assertively 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…