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A Republican Jew on Progressive Jews, Israel, and the American Jewish Community
As a Republican Jew I often find myself in the minority. As someone who is deeply involved in Jewish life, this happens quite often. Yet when it comes to Israel, I find affiliated Jewry, especially those identified as liberal, becomes lackluster in their commitment to classical liberal values. This is not a clarion call for the Jewish community to wake up and smell the politically conservative flowers. Rather, it is a call for our community to recognize that Progressive Jews are right on Israel and wrong regarding their critique of the Jewish community. Israel is not perfect and, it is my opinion that the Jewish Progressives are 100% right that this fact should not be hidden from inquiring minds. Whether on Arab-Israeli’s, women’s, and religious rights, Israel has a lot of space for growth. Many Progressive Jews want an Israel...
Occupy Oakland Adopts Outrageous BDS Resolution
As reported yesterday by Electronic Intifada (http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/bds-proposal-wins-big-occupy-oakland) Occupy Oakland passed a proposal yesterday to support the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS). You can view the statement here – http://occupyoakland.org/2012/01/proposal-occupy-wallstreet-not-palestine/ As a radical leftist and a Zionist, I am not surprised by this development, but I am nonetheless upset. I won’t even get into my feelings about whether one can reconcile being Leftist and a Zionist in America today. You can read my earlier blog post for that (http://vizionsofzionism.org/liberalism-zionism). Here are some of the seriously problematic elements (from the of slightly bothersome to completely outrageous and Anti-Semitic) of the resolution that passed yesterday: 1. This movement claims to be “Anchored in universal principles of human rights”. While groups like this will often support policies like affirmative action, or indigenous rights which provide support to a previously oppressed...
The Dreyfus Revival
Herzl was wrong. Zionism did not put an end to anti-Semitism and now wildfires have sparked outrageous theories of an international Jewish conspiracy to take over southern Chile. When Theodor Herzl began covering the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in 1893 as Paris correspondent of the Neue Freie Presse, he suspected that the French army officer charged with treason was guilty of the crime for which he’d been arrested. A devotee of the promises of Enlightenment and Emancipation, it was difficult for him to accept that the French republic – born of the belief in liberté, égalité and fraternité – was capable of fabricating the web of lies that would result in the public humiliation and imprisonment of a loyal French officer. Ultimately, however, the affair would have a dramatic effect in propelling him toward the conclusion that the Jews...
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