Can Israeliness save American Jewry?

David Hazony wrote an excellent and in-depth essay for The Tower called "Israeli Identity and the Future of American Jewry." Please read the whole thing, I would not do it justice in this brief summary. Hazony's thesis is that the best way to counter rampant assimilation of American Jews is to introduce them to Judaism through the prism of Israeliness. Israeliness is now...

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Why calling Zionism colonialist is false - and antisemitic

There have been many articles about the student-designed course at UC Berkeley called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Inquiry.” But as far as I can tell, no one has addressed the main question: can Israel be considered colonialist? It can't. Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colonies in one territory, imposed by people from another...

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International law prohibits banning Jewish worship on the Temple Mount

TOI reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday restated a pledge to retain intact the custom of not permitting non-Muslim prayer on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which has been at the center of a recent spike in unrest. “Israel reaffirms its commitment to upholding unchanged the status quo of the Temple Mount, in word and in practice,” he said in a statement. The...

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When you hate Israel, it can do nothing right

When you hate Israel, it can do nothing right Evil Hasbara claim Israel Derangement Response Israel is tolerant towards gays Israel has some homophobes, and therefore really hates gays (Richard Silverstein) Israel is only pretending to be tolerant; it is engaging in “pinkwashing” to distract the world from its crimes (Sarah Schulman) Israel has repeatedly offered peace and been rebuffed Those...

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How the Arabs added specifically anti-Israel language to the Rome Statute of the ICC

The list of war crimes enumerated in Rome Statute of the ICC includes a section that is directly aimed at Israel, and no one else. From The International Criminal Court: the making of the Rome Statute : issues, negotiations and results by Roy S. K. Lee Article 8(2)(b)(viii), on deportation and transfer of population, also generated extensive discussions. The provision now reads: The transfer. directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of...

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NYT chooses a Gaza child to symbolize all child deaths in war this year (update)

Here is a scan of a page from the New York Times Magazine this past weekend, using a Gaza child named Tala Akram al-Atawi ,who was killed over the summer, to symbolize all children killed in war: From looking at this page, one would get the impression that except for South Sudan, more children were killed in Gaza than in any other conflict this year, and that over 20%...

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The entire bogus history of Palestinian Arab nationalism exposed by a stamp

This is a stamp from  British Mandate Palestine. It says "Palestine" in Hebrew, Arabic and English, but in Hebrew it adds the initials א.י.(E.Y.), for Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, which is what Jews have always called the area. In 1925, Arab leaders in Palestine were very upset over those two letters, so they went to court. From the Palestine Bulletin, October...

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