Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro says what needs to be said -- and he said it two years ago, before the clowns in the House of Representatives (Thomas Massey and a few others excepted) decreed otherwise. I have nothing to add.
Zionism
TGIF: Inspiration for the Nakba?
The unspeakable violence that plagues Israel and Palestine daily relates in part to the assertion of an ancient, ancestral, and even divinely bestowed property right to a parcel of land, which is often called "holy" and "promised." For background, here are a few...
TGIF: Jewish Dissent on the Balfour Declaration
In the fateful year 1917 the British cabinet had one Jewish member: Edwin Montagu. He was also the only cabinet member to oppose the Balfour Declaration of that year, which paved the way for the self-declared creation of the state of Israel, the so-called Jewish...
Is War Inevitable? Lessons From History w/ Scott Horton
https://youtu.be/5_dZBu3zJxw The chronic Middle East crisis goes hack--as do many crises--to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over....
Amid War on Gaza, Scores of Palestinians Killed By Israeli Forces, Settlers in the West Bank
Amid Tel Aviv’s massive bombing campaign against the densely populated, besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have been on a rampage of violence, terror, torture, and murder throughout the occupied West Bank. On October 7, Hamas carried out a...
Tel Aviv to Announce Plans For Thousands of New Settlement Units in West Bank
Israel has informed the White House that it intends to announce the planning and building of thousands of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank later this month, according to US and Israeli officials speaking to Axios.
Conversation on Bro History Podcast
I had a great conversation on Zionism, antisemitism, and the Palestine question with Henry Szamota and Danny Abdeljabbar on the Bro History podcast, which you can find in all the usual podcast places. Or listen here. I hope you enjoy it.
TGIF: Hear, O Israel — Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
An older generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, admire the colonists who resisted the British king and parliament in the late 1700s. Jewish Americans go further and admire the Judeans who revolted against the Greeks and Romans (twice) in antiquity. So...
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