Hillel Cohen

Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett (Photo by Activestills.org)

Israel’s education minister wants to reduce Jewish history to pogroms

A new committee is tasked with exposing Israeli students to Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish history. The problem? There is more than one narrative. By Gil Gertel A committee in Israel’s Education Ministry meant to “expose Israeli students to the cultural, philosophical, social, and historical wealth of Jewish communities of the East and Spain” began its…

By +972 Magazine March 12, 2016

Funeral for a victim of the 1929 Hebron Massacre. (Photographer unknown)

What the 1929 Palestine riots teach us about today’s violence

They began with clashes around the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, continued with mutual arson and stabbing attacks, and ended in a massacre. And even then we continued living together. By Hillel Cohen (translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) The recent events in Jerusalem are reminding some people of the summer of 1929. The parallels are uncanny:…

By +972 Magazine October 16, 2015

Funeral for a victim of the 1929 Hebron Massacre. (Photographer unknown)

Book review: The year Palestine became a zero-sum game – 1929

After 1929, Arabic-speaking Jews who had lived in peace and cultural affinity with fellow residents, and orthodox Jews who had shunned Zionism, could no longer feel safe among their erstwhile neighbors and friends. They had to rely on the new Yishuv to protect them from then on, and they never looked back. Introducing new information…

By +972 Magazine January 10, 2014

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