Pretending to be a Zionist to attack the concept of a Jewish state

For decades, we have seen people who use their (real or constructed) Jewish identity to attempt to discredit Zionism.But some of them hate Israel so much, they pretend to be Zionists in order to discredit Zionism!From Haaretz:Is it time for liberal Zionists, in the name of Zionism, to embrace the end of a sovereign Jewish state in Israel and instead seek the establishment...

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NYT op-ed using the Basic Law as an excuse to attack the very idea of a Jewish state

Omri Boehm, a philosopher who we have written about before, once again uses the New York Times to advance an anti-Israel argument which would receive a failing grade from any real philosophy class. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the new legislation simply “determined in law the founding principle of our existence.” In fact, its primary function is to build...

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Sham "philosopher" Omri Boehm claims Jews who love Jerusalem are "idolators" - according to Jewish law!

A year ago, I critiqued a major essay in the New York Times' philosophy section by Omri Boehm, who teaches at The New School. Using arguments that wouldn't pass a first year logic course, he argued that Zionism was racism. Now he has moved into critiquing Judaism itself. In an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, which was translated and published by the major...

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A "philosopher" in the NYT essentially calls Zionism racism. His argument is propaganda, not philosophy.

The New York Times has a feature called "The Stone" which is supposed to be "a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. " Its latest installment bashes Zionism. Philosophically, of course. Omri Boehm,  an assistant professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research, starts off the way any good propagandist...

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