Tag: nationalism
“America First” And Planetary Survival: A Primal Contradiction
“The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself` is false and against nature.”- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man...
Dual loyalty?
How long have we been the “wandering Jews?” I imagine ever since Abraham, the very first Jew. His travels and travails are recounted in the Bible for all to see and our sages taught...
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...
Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in a changing Europe
According to most of the international media, democracy was defeated in this week’s Hungarian election. The victory of incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party over a multi-party opposition coalition of parties...
Nationalism goes back into fashion with certain exceptions
All of a sudden, nationalism is back in fashion. The world isn’t just cheering the heroic efforts of Ukrainians to defend their country against an illegal and brutal invasion by Russia. It’s also embracing...
President Andrzej Duda: Xenophobia, nationalism, anti-Semitism mean exclusion from our society
In our country, there is no room or tolerance for xenophobia, sick nationalism or anti-Semitism. Such attitudes will lead to exclusion from our society, President Andrzej Duda said Monday, commenting on racist incidents at...