"To hold fast to the image of God in every person is to insist that the Palestinian child is as precious as the Jewish child.” From an excellent op-ed at The New York Times by Michelle Alexander. Rabbi Brian Walt, who has spoken publicly about the reasons that he...
Zionism
TGIF: But Mr. Trump, Is Israel Lovable?
Speaking before Sheldon Adelson's Israeli-American Council the other day, Trump took a shot at Jewish Americans who he says don't "love Israel enough." "We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more," Trump said. "We have to get them...
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Lions of Liberty Interview
I was a guest on the Lions of Liberty podcast to talk about Coming to Palestine. You can listen to the interview here.
TGIF: To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State: That Is the Question
Israel’s champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the “Jewish People” everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for...
Word Order Matters
What people of good will seek for Israel and Palestine is not just a peace, but a just peace.
The Double Essentialism of Zionism
Zionism, the Jewish nationalist philosophy that underlies the state of Israel, entails two kinds of essentialism: Jewishness for Jews and anti-Semitism for gentiles. In other words, no matter how hard they try, Jews cannot stop being Jewish and gentiles cannot stop...
Rights of Return Compared
Israel's defenders often ask how third-generation Palestinians can possibly be recognized as refugees with a right of return to the properties from which the Zionists drove their grandparents in 1947-48. But didn't those Zionists, most of whom had arrived ony three...
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