Tag: Israel
Zionism, normalization and integration
When Israel signed the Abraham Accords, Haaretz reporter Anshel Pfeffer wrote, “Zionism is an archaic and misleading term in our day and age.” Pfeffer was not the first to claim that, while Zionism was a movement...
The question of the Jewish nation
In 1789, in the wake of the French Revolution, Stanislas Marie Adelaide, Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, said, “We must refuse everything to the Jews as a nation and accord everything to Jews as individuals.”
A century...
Distorting the Declaration
“As embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the essence of the State of Israel is to be a Jewish and democratic state.” — Col. (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch of the Institute for National Security...
Give Saudi peace a chance
It is important to refute the many arguments being bandied about against a peace deal involving Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States.
I think that the doubters and naysayers, as well as those who...
No normalization at any price
U.S. President Joe Biden is attempting to negotiate a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. However, he may also be negotiating an unwritten understanding with Iran that enriches the clerical regime without meaningful...
Recognizing antisemitism
The following remarks were delivered by Alyza D. Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, to the Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on July 25,...
The distorted ‘nakba’ narrative
Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is an angry man. Chikli, who has a history of being outspoken, has lately turned his sights on the German government. He has complained about inappropriate comparisons between the...
Thomas Friedman, the court Jew
“Court Jews” have existed throughout the history of the Diaspora. They were Jews who rose to positions of power and influence under the rulers of the nations in which they lived. Unfortunately, most of...
Bringing God back to Zionism
As he stood in front of a joint session of the U.S. Congress, Israeli President Isaac Herzog must have been more aware of the historic nature of his speech than anyone else in the...
UN official accuses Israel of depriving Palestinians of their liberty
The U.N. special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories on Monday issued a scathing report accusing Israel of abusing Palestinians and depriving them of liberty.
Francesca Albanese, an Italian lawyer with a long history of hostile...