A Time for Reassessment
byThere is no kinder, gentler United States waiting for Israel around the corner. Not even if Marco Rubio becomes president. Because our interests conflict.
There is no kinder, gentler United States waiting for Israel around the corner. Not even if Marco Rubio becomes president. Because our interests conflict.
How messianic desire & diasporic aversion to power created a globally dominant & uniquely Jewish political tradition that Israel must reject.
The willingness to violate Jewish law but not US law speaks volumes about which law (& value system) Jews like Adina Sash experience as truly binding.
Since the time of Avraham, the Israelite identity has carried within it an impulse to challenge empire.
What gives the State of Israel a ‘right to exist’ depends on the ideological lens through which one understands our current moment of history.
Despite efforts to tie me to a pro-Israel doxxing site, VISION upholds its critique of the Hasbara industry.
The image of Israel awarding its highest civilian honor to Donald Trump projects the very opposite of Jewish independence & empowerment.
When Israel inevitably returns to war with Iran, it should do so without a globally overcommitted & fundamentally disinterested United States.
Two primary load-bearing walls can’t compete for the same space. One must be the foundation & the other must be secondary. This is the deeper lesson of Jonathan Pollard’s story & the choice he made.
The relationship between the people of Israel & our land is not incidental but actually structural.
Aligning the US Jewish community with American conservatism ultimately advances the ideological & civilizational tilt of Israel’s historic adversaries.
Historical materialism has an essential spiritual deficiency that only Israel has the ability to correct.