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Nurit Greenger The journalist Melanie Phillips just wrote a extraordinarily good article she named 'Zionism and bigotry' (http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/05/zionism-and-bigotry.html).  In the article she wrote, "Judaism is like a stool supported on three legs – the nation, the religion and the land," and "Zionism is no more, nor less, than the self-determination of the Jewish people - as a people, and not just as adherents of the...  

Zionism is no more nor less than the self-determination of the Jewish people  

Melanie PhillipsIn the wake of the festival of Shavuot, when Jews have been celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai from where he presented them to the Jewish people camped at its foot, I have been brooding over the fact that Zionism has become a dirty word in Britain and the west.For many in these societies, Zionism has now become equated with racism. This group libel, once regarded with revulsion by decent...  

This article first appeared in Jewish Ideas Daily and is re-published with permission. Few things divide and provoke American Jews like the question of Zionism. Though many wish to remember otherwise, this was also the case before the founding of Israel in ...  

The International Bible Contest will be broadcast live from the Jerusalem Theater on Arutz Sheva's Hebrew site from 11 a.m. Independence Day morning. The contest is in Hebrew, but includes skits and videos, vocal and dance performances which English ...  

From his article in June 2010 titled “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in the New York Review of Books, to the publication of his book The Crisis of Zionism in March this year, Beinart, 40, touched off a fierce debate over the growing ...  

Lectures include "Israel's Nationalist Avant-Garde," "Imagining Israel" and "Shavuot, A Blueprint to Spiritual Zionism ... you can sort of find your own niche," she says. "You have a friend who challenges you intellectually, you have a cup of coffee ...  

Terrorist Salah Hamuri, who was convicted of planning to assassinate Rav Ovadia Yosef but was freed in the Shalit deal, has sued Reuters and Arutz Sheva over what he says was an interview that "besmirched his name and portrayed him in an unfavorable light.  

Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal(Speaking the Truth. Zionism, Israel, and Occupation, edited by Michael Prior, Interlink Publishing, Northampton, MA, 2005, 254 pp.)When the South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu paid his first visit to Palestine, he was shocked by the similarities between his former Apartheid South Africa and the dismal situation under which occupied Palestinians have been living since the establishment of the State of Israel. In his...  

Peter Beinart’s new book, The Crisis of Zionism, has sparked a debate between Israel’s apologists and critics. Much of that debate has focused on the quality of Beinart’s research into and analysis of contemporary Zionism. Bret Stephens in his review in Tablet magazine, for example, finds the book’s argument sloppy. But Beinart’s treatment of historical Zionism is no less flawed. A self-described liberal Zionist, he makes the villain of his...  

President Barack Obama has bypassed a Congress block and signed a waiver ... (Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli ...  

Shurat HaDin head to receive Zionism prizeJerusalem PostYet over and above helping victims, Shurat HaDin's lawsuits have exposed the extent to which Iran supports Palestinian terrorism, and how it and other state sponsors of terror assist and enable their terrorist proxies, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad ...Darshan-Leitner Wins Prize for Fighting Terror in CourtThe Jewish Pressall 4 news articles »  

Adam L. Silverman, PhD* A good chunk of my work is looking at identity and how it drives behavior. Originally it was how individuals learned behavior from their primary identity groups that promoted political violence, low intensity conflict, and terrorism....  

The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.“Is Zionism in Crisis?” with Peter Beinart and David SuissaExaminer.comFirst with his New York Review of Books piece, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” then with his book-length treatment, The Crisis of Zionism. Beinart has become the avatar and spokesperson of what he calls “liberal Zionism.Peter Beinart and David Suissa debate Zionism's 'Crisis' [VIDEO]The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A...  

Soldiers recite the Shehechianu prayer. Rabbi Shlomo Goren sings El Maleh Rachamim in honor of those who have fallen and in the recording one can hear the soldiers’ heart-rending sobs. The shofar is blown and Goren says that it is in this year that we ...  

The Lag ba-Omer bonfire on Eitam kindled, in the hearts of the scores of residents from Efrat, Jerusalem, Kiriat Arba-Hebron, and Gush Etzion, an awareness of the importance of the Eitam hill and the need to continue going up to the hill with the demand to begin construction on it.  

Helpful Instruments in our Understanding of Zionism and Israeli OppressionPacific Free PressIt is only natural then, that these realms of thought, primarily concerned with prejudice and injustice, would become key instruments in our understanding of Zionism and Israeli oppression. Without questioning the intellectual validity and the ...and more »  

In a recent Haaretz article, leading Israeli columnist Gideon Levy affirms that Zionism is pretty irrelevant as far as Israelis are concerned. Similar to the line I myself develop in The Wandering Who, Levy contends that Israelis do not understand what Zionism stands for. For them it is an archaic notion.  

MK Danny Danon (Likud) spoke to Arutz Sheva while attending a rally at Homesh this week at the head of a delegation from the World Likud. "Today, we are thousands of people from the Likud movement from all over the world, in Homesh," Danon told Arutz Sheva. We are here "to tell the Prime Minister to get back to Homesh, to let Jews live here in Homesh, to erase the disgraceful decision that pulled Jews out from Homesh," he explained. "I am also...  

by Joseph 7 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank   When Ali Awad visited his orchard on Friday morning before the midday prayer he noticed nothing out of the usual. But eight hours later, when he returned to his land in order to gather grape leaves to sell in the local market, he [...]  

SYNOPSIS - Alan Hart argues that Zionism's mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, "unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism's monster child ...  

Selling Zionism in the 1920sSalonBy Steven Heller, Imprint Dan Walsh's incredibly rich Palestine Poster Project Archives includes much in the way of protest, but it also contains a trove of rare Zionist/Israeli posters from the 1920s through the '50s, largely before partition.  

'ZOO, or the letter Z, just after Zionism' starts at page number 437 of 'The Atlas of the Conflict' and continues into a fascinating exploration of ideas, snapshots and associations, that could be raised once seeing a white donkey tied with a rope, covered with beige tape and being transformed into a zebra by a beautiful Palestinian boy continue  

Slonim, nearly 80, was at the forefront of the settlement movement for several decades.  

Peter Beinart, a former editor of The New Republic who now writes for the Daily Beast and teaches at the City University of New York, has just published a remarkable book, The Crisis of Zionism, that tackles one of the most contentious issues in American politics: how the United States interacts with an Israel that seems increasingly unreceptive to American advice but increasingly engaged in American politics. I put six questions to Beinart...  

I think it's fair to say - for both critics and admirers of Peter Beinart's new book - that its central focus is the occupation of the West Bank and how this imperils both a Jewish and a democratic state...  

This is a guest post by Darren Cohen Pesach is the festival of freedom; a quintessentially Jewish value. It should also be a reminder of the essence of the Zionist revolution: the self-liberation of the Jewish People. Laid bare, that is all Zionism is. The notion that Zionism is somehow a colonialist, racist ideology is antithetical [...]  

Join the debate on twitter using #BeinartUK. Peter Beinart is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York. He is senior political writer for The Daily Beast and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. The author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror [...]  

Power corrupts. But so too does powerlessness. The narrative of powerlessness, of perpetual helpless victimhood, corrupts moral vision. In his cover story, Rabbi Wolpe does a masterful job of diffusing the political arguments of Peter Beinart’s book, The Crisis of Zionism. But he does not address the fundamental and disconcerting questions at the heart of Beinart’s concern: How has the narrative of victimhood warped contemporary Zionism and...  

All other peoples of the world may win or lose territory as a result of winning wars, but Israel, or so these academics propound, is to exist below and outside of these universal practices of law; all other religions may demand as sacrosanct their holy sites, regardless the manner by which these sites were acquired. But Israel and her Jews must accept the imposition of other peoples' religious expansionism, even when that same religious...  

One of the favourite tactics of supporters of Israel and Zionism is to accuse their opponents of ‘anti-Semitism’. This argument is advanced in an attempt to prevent criticism of Israel from being presented, or to attack the individual or group, that is defending Palestinian human rights. Implicit in this criticism is the idea that all [...]  

In the ongoing discussion about when criticism of Israel can be labeled as anti-Semitism, Nathan Sharansky said that it's anti-Semitism when Israel is demonized, when Israel is delegitimized and when a double-standard is used to assess Israeli behavior.  

The ability to appreciate the merits of the other side of a question, John Stuart Mill asserted in his 1859 classic, “On Liberty,” is a hallmark of the liberal spirit. By this measure, Peter Beinart’s new book, “The Crisis of Zionism,” which has become a cause célèbre among progressives, marks another step in the parting of ways between progressives and that old-fashioned and indispensable liberalism that recognized that multiple perspectives...  

"In October, ABC7 featured a news report "focused on a major Jewish organization expressing concerns about the presence of anti-Semitic signs and some disturbing statements made at Occupy protest events in Chicago and elsewhere." We argue that this was, in fact, a disingenuous claim aimed at discrediting the Occupy/Decolonize movement and marginalizing the struggle for Palestinian self determination, as well distracting attention from the core...  

When Peter Beinart’s new book ... Jewish and democratic state is in serious danger because of Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip—has now moved into a second phase. In addition to the usual stops on a book ...  

When Peter Beinart’s new book ... Jewish and democratic state is in serious danger because of Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip—has now moved into a second phase. In addition to the usual stops on a book ...  

In their May 2 debate in New York, Daniel Gordis and Peter Beinhart enthusiastically agreed on one matter that has been omitted from all the coverage of the event I’ve seen. And yet I am exceedingly uncomfortable with their argument. Here, reluctantly ...  

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To save Israel from what he sees as the corrosive effects of settlement in the West Bank, he says, American Jews should boycott products made in the settlements and push the U.S. government to ban tax-deductible gifts to charities that fund settlers.  

Isn't one as bad as the other? The answer is no." I take my text from George Bush, who, in an address to the United Nations on September 23, 1991, said this of the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism: "Zionism . . . is the idea that led to the ...  

Concluding his article, Sizer writes: “The ICEJ, it appears, is a sectarian, pseudo-Christian organization of dispensational origin which has unconditionally endorsed contemporary political Israel as the exclusive fulfillment of God´s promises and ...  

Sovereignty, it turns out, comes with its own set of problems. Ironically, Zionism offers solutions to some of sovereignty's problems. For my "simple" Zionism, the essential Zionism, came in its mainstream expression with rich amendments, amendments that ...  

Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history at the University of Toronto, will give a lecture titled "Jews into Israelis: Zionism as a Revolutionary Project" at 4:30 p.m.  Tuesday, April 17, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 16.  

Here's a debate that took place on Wednesday in New York between Daniel Gordis and Peter Beinart about the 'crisis' in Zionism.This is quite long and I have not watched it yet.Let's go to the videotape.Watch live streaming video from tabletmagazine at livestream.com  

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, head of the governing Labour Party, was silent in the face of official anti-Semitic and anti-Israel banners. Marchers at the event's parade held banners proclaiming 11 official slogans, including “Israel = Apartheid ...  

Netanyahu’s death was the second blow the family had suffered in a span of less than six months. In November of last year, Shmuel Ben-Artzi, a noted Bible scholar and the father of the prime minister’s wife, Sara, died at 97. Benzion had been in poor ...  

You can learn a lot about a nation’s health by watching how it celebrates its national holidays. In Israel’s case, compare how we celebrated our 50th Independence Day in 1998 to what celebrations involve today. During the 1990s, Israel’s elite took a ...  

It felt like a portrait of my childhood in verse. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them ...  

The choreography enraged members of Netanyahu’s cabinet including education minister Yitzhak Levy. They insisted that the program ... of performers announced they would boycott the Ariel Center for Performing Arts, the public reacted with ...  

The so-called "New Historians," who rummaged through David Ben-Gurion's closet looking for skeletons ... t contain material that insulted sectors of Israeli society. The organizers tried to forge a compromise. But the dancers chose to boycott ...  

The open door policy for Israeli radicals was defensible in the 1990s when a significant portion of the Israeli public supported them You can learn a lot about a nation’s health by watching how it celebrates its national holidays. In Israel’s case ...  

So-called “liberal Zionists” like author Peter Beinart have been mounting an all-out campaign to undermine any notion that the proper attitude of American Jews toward Israel is support of its current government. Beinart and others on the ...  

A group with an ethnic-cultural identity, not only a religion; Living exclusively as a minority among other nations is bad for both Jews and Judaism; Jews need to enjoy effective self-determination; Jews should strive to create a political community where ...  

But Beinart’s treatment of historical Zionism is no less flawed. A self-described liberal Zionist, he makes the villain of his book Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the most influential political descendant of Menachem Begin, who led the newly ...  

The last two posts have dealt with the treatment of women, and this one is a good summary. If you are a woman, would you rather live in Israel or in an Arab/Muslim country?Let's go to the videotape - and then you can decide (Hat Tip: MFS - The Other News).Perhaps someone should forward this video to Mona Eltahawy.  

Jonathan Rosen didn’t review my book “The Crisis of Zionism” (April 15); he evaded it. At my book’s heart is this claim: While the Palestinians absolutely bear part of the blame for the lack of a two-state solution (I call Yasir Arafat ...  

The cultural and recreational vision behind the Tel Aviv Port, one of the city’s major entertainment complexes, has been reduced to no more than a greedy money-making policy, the site’s chief architect says. "When we drafted our vision for the Tel Aviv ...  

Naftali Bennett, a close associate of Netanyahu who previously ... disconnecting the Gaza strip from the West Bank and "assigning" it to Egypt; 5) rejecting a Palestinian right of return for the refugees even in the enclaves that would ...  

Nevertheless, when he summarizes the views of those who take a more hawkish view on Israel and are more reluctant to make concessions to the Palestinians, he overemphasizes the occasionally racist comments made by extremists. In addition ...  

As Israel marks its national Holocaust Remembrance Day, many around the world will secretly roll their eyes. 'There they go again the Zionists, using their precious Holocaust to justify their state, their power, their faults, reveling in a world ...  

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Many of the organizations that say they fight for foreign workers’ rights are actually attempting to change Israel’s demographics, Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai accused Sunday. Yishai spoke at the fifth annual Ramle Conference; this year's ...  

As we all know, the Daily Beast has a new blog called Open Zion (lately changed from Zion Square) that is fostering a (circumscribed) discussion about Zionism. Well I just came across this piece at the site that shows how limited the conversation is in ...  

Practical and cultural Zionists saw things differently. In The Founding Fathers of Zionism, author Benzion Netanyahu seeks to show readers the pantheon of Jewish thinkers who not only created and articulated Zionism but also forged what became known as its ...  

It clearly articulates the slippery slope from criticizing Israel to anti-Semitism — a topic often debated on the pages of this blog.  I hope that if you ... of Israel and at least point the way to a connection between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.  

My kind of Zionism is very basic, almost too obvious to put into words. I would like a Zionism that looks for the middle road, that recoils from high rhetoric, from all kinds of messianism; a Zionism that does not look for territorial gains, that does not ...  

The former editor of The New Republic, now an associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York, has previously written The Icarus Syndrome ... build their careers and family lives, generally supported the civil ...  

Book review: 'The Crisis of Zionism,' by Peter BeinartWashington PostMany books have been written on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle — by reporters, elected officials, diplomats, novelists, poets, human rights workers, Nobel laureates and ordinary citizens. But Peter Beinart's “The Crisis of Zionism” stands out not ...and more »  

A strong Zionism, a hybrid of nineteenth-century nationalism and faith in the Bible, helped nurture the founding of the State, reaching its peak in the Six-Day War. Based upon the presumption of knowing God’s will and then executing it, this ...  

In the ongoing discussion about when criticism of Israel can be labeled as anti-Semitism, Nathan Sharansky made a seminal pedagogical contribution with his Three Ds. He said that it's anti-Semitism when Israel is demonized, when Israel is delegitimized and ...  

I have a confession to make: I’m primitive. Yes, I do know the history of Zionism and its different movements, am familiar with post Zionism and neo-Zionism (quite popular in Israel now) and they don’t work for me. I have a movement of my ...  

But the language of pathology is no less essential to the sophisticated analyses of Western anti-Zionist intellectuals and their Israeli counterparts. Praising David Grossman’s latest novel back in 2010, the Economist noted approvingly that “fever is ...  

The writer proposed a boycott on Israeli settlements. There are better policy ideas, but the point is that we need to rethink the American Jewish leadership's relationship to Israel, its democracy, and its occupation. Israel, settlements, and boycotts ...  

For more, go to Liberal Zionists Speak Out. When I was growing up in Jerusalem in the 1980s, the word "Zionism" was familiar to me mainly ... After that, there was essentially no need for Zionism, just as, God willing, there will be no need for the Peace ...  

Zionism's plummet as a compelling idea -- beyond, that is, the political or religious right -- isn't merely the byproduct of insidious propaganda or of the bullying of leftwing academics. The term has stumbled into something ...  

Stars of theatre and literature split over invitation to Israeli company to stage Merchant of Venice in London Author Howard Jacobson has weighed into a debate over whether Israel's national theatre company, Habima, should be banned from performing at the Globe in London as part of next month's Cultural Olympiad event, saying art should never be censored. Habima was invited to perform The Merchant of Venice in Hebrew as part of an ambitious...  

Instead, Beinart’s book is mainly about the response to this searing and seemingly intractable conflict among American Jews, who, though living far from the dusty battlegrounds, are nonetheless regarded as the linchpin by certain people on both ends of ...  

This year on Land Day, worldwide Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activities will take place against Israeli policies, as well as the Global March to Jerusalem, which will call attention to the continuing Judaization and ethnic cleansing in the city ...  

In recent years, a small but increasing number of Jews have become active in movements critical of the State of Israel. Some have even joined extreme anti-Zionist groups advocating a boycott of all Israeli Jews, and a coerced return of millions of ...  

Is liberal Zionism an oxymoron? These days, it's easy to think it is. Many people on the left have, reluctantly, accepted that right-wing extremists are today's true Zionists, and have, therefore, dropped away from Zionism, or have styled themselves "post ...  

It has been stolen by that settler boy in Sheikh Jarrah, and it might not be worth trying to get it back. Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Hillel Ben Sasson is a Ph.D. cadidate in Philosophy at ...  

In June 2010, Peter Beinart published a long article in the New York Review of Books with a provocative title: "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment." In it, he attacked major American Jewish organizations for their uncritical support of ...  

Protestors in Manhattan voice concern about rising anti-Semitism in France, Doug Kanter / Getty Images The dawn of enlightenment, emancipation and the advent of modernism presented Jews with unprecedented challenges—how to remain Jewish and ...  

Beirut – Among the demonstrators today to mark Land Day, included rabbis from the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox group Neturei Karta. “We are here to mark Land Day, and tell the world not to blame Jewish people for the crimes of Zionism,” Rabbi Ahron Cohen told AFP. “Judaism and Zionism are two different concepts.” The same group [...]  

“As a partisan of liberal democracy, I believe that to honor that history of suffering, a Jewish state must offer equal citizenship to all its inhabitants ... For Beinart, the answer to this dilemma seems to be a halfway solution in ...  

TweetOver the past several years, the Israeli far-right think tank, the Institute for Zionist Strategies, has accused Tel Aviv University (TAU) and other academic institutions of being hotbeds of anti-Zionism.  Here is how I described the campaign waged by IZS in a 2010 post: [IZS is] demanding the firing of “left-wing” professors considered hostile to Zionism.  They [...]  

“When we talk about hummus,” the Israeli academic Dafna Hirsch tells New York Magazine’s Matthew Shaer, “we talk on the material level and also the symbolic level. There is a mythology that completely surrounds hummus that doesn’t ...  

Filling in for Nick Kristof at the New York Times (hey, how come Gershom Gorenberg, Eric Alterman, and Bernard Avishai didn't get this kind of press access?) Peter Beinart describes the generational divide inside Jewish life ...  

“The Jews are like rats,” Peter Beinart’s grandmother told him when he was a boy. “We leave the sinking ship.” This grandmother — who was born in Egypt and lived in South Africa but dreamed of joining her brother in Israel ...  

I remembered this story while reading Hillel Ben Sasson's article "Zionism's Been Stolen ... First, by pulling out of the game we are abandoning it to the hands of our neo-McCarthyists.  I refuse to let them determine what Zionism is, or ...  

Peter Beinart is the author of "The Icarus Syndrome" and "The Good Fight ... University of New York and a senior fellow at The New America Foundation. He lives with his family in New York City. More Peter Beinart.  

Hey London Jews. Watch this. Think carefully before you vote for this man.  

In one of world’s ironies, historian Benzion Netanyahu received far greater recognition in death than in life.  

Peter Beinart aims to save Israel from itself, and the United States from the Israel lobby.