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Why are American Jews so shocked by Israel’s far-right turn?
Israel's electorate is forcing U.S. Jews to grapple with the dissonance not only between liberal values and Zionism, but their understandings of Judaism itself.
By
Shaul Magid
April 25, 2023
Are liberal American Jews becoming afraid to talk about Israel?
Many Jews in the U.S. have grown uncomfortable voicing implausible defenses of Israel, yet cannot let go of their Zionism. Denial won't solve the dilemma.
By
Shaul Magid
November 10, 2022
Liberal Zionism is dying. Will foregoing the Jewish state save it?
A new book calls for Zionism to be re-envisioned as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values.
By
Shaul Magid
August 10, 2021
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British Jews are speaking out on Israel. Will the progressive community have our back?
We expected attacks on anti-occupation voices by Britain’s Jewish communal leaders. Now our progressive Jewish institutions are turning their backs on us when we need them most. By Emily Hilton In May of this year, a group of U.K.-based Jewish anti-occupation activists held a demonstration in London’s Parliament Square, where we recited the kaddish, the Jewish mourner’s…
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July 6, 2018
‘For many young American Jews, the Trump-Bibi axis is the enemy’
Bradley Burston insists that his views about Israel haven't changed since he moved here in the 1970s. It's Israel which has changed. 'I would like to have two states. But hundreds of thousands of Israelis said ‘you can’t have it,’ and they run the country,' he says in a wide-ranging interview about Israel, the Nakba, and the changing face of American Jewry.
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Edo Konrad
July 2, 2018
Rattling the Gilded Cage: An Interview with Larry Derfner
The author of 'No Country for Jewish Liberals' discusses how a Liberal Zionist can support BDS, why some Israeli peaceniks might be better off voting for Bibi, and why the Left in Israel is living in a gilded cage.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 19, 2017
Zionists for BDS? Why not?
While counterintuitive, liberal Zionists may be best able to achieve their goal of a just peace by joining forces with the BDS movement. Both groups stand to benefit enormously. By Ahmed Rizk The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) is arguably one of the most significant developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the Oslo Accords…
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April 6, 2017
Can J Street coherently fight both boycott and occupation?
After J Street U students were attacked at an anti-BDS conference this week, the lobby might want to reconsider the effectiveness of seeking common ground with extremists. Things got ugly at an anti-BDS conference at the United Nations this week when participants turned on a group of liberal university students in attendance. The conference, organized by…
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Noa Yachot
April 1, 2017
The question isn’t whether feminism has room for Zionism
The question is whether Zionism can make room for a truly inclusive equality. In a recent New York Times op-ed “Does Feminism have Room for Zionists?” Emily Shire, who identifies as a feminist and a Zionist, argues that her belief in “Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state” should not be at odds with her feminism. According…
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Mairav Zonszein
March 21, 2017
Israel’s travel ban strikes Liberal Zionism at its core
Israel’s new anti-BDS law is antagonizing some of the state’s most loyal supporters, rewriting a decades-old relationship. Israel ramped up its fight against the global boycott movement last week, when the Knesset passed its own travel ban: a new law barring entry to any non-citizen or non–permanent resident who has publicly called for or pledged to support a…
By
Mairav Zonszein
March 14, 2017
Could a Palestinian politician best represent American Jewish values?
Progressive American Jews may be willing to stand alongside American Muslims, but are they ready to demonstrate the same solidarity for Arab citizens of Israel? Ayman Odeh, the head of the Joint List, is a test case for where ‘pro-peace’ Jews draw the line. Progressive American Jews have had a hard time in recent years finding…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 28, 2017
Losing the will to fight Israel Apartheid Week
It’s getting harder and harder for liberal Zionists to reconcile an Israel that legitimizes settler land theft with the values they have been raised to believe the Jewish state stands for. By Ben Reiff I’ve been dreading Israel Apartheid Week since I arrived at university in London – a supposed hot-spot for Israel-Palestine tension on campuses.…
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February 26, 2017
The age of Trump spells the end of the Zionist dream
When Israel backs an American regime that threatens our liberty as humans and our safety as Jews, the claim that Zionism protects Jews no longer holds. By Ben Lorber For most American Jews, Donald Trump‘s regime has ushered in the most profound and destabilizing existential crisis since the Holocaust. We watch in horror as President…
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February 7, 2017
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