A Turning Point for North American Jews
byIt’s time for complacently comfortable Diaspora Jews to make serious choices about tomorrow.
It’s time for complacently comfortable Diaspora Jews to make serious choices about tomorrow.
For some Diaspora Jews, embracing a war on ‘wokeness’ stems from a false perception that the American right will be better for Israel than the liberal administration it seeks to replace.
For Einat Wilf & the Israeli bourgeoisie, any victory for the parties that comprise the current coalition is either a fluke or an injustice that must be opposed.
Israel’s youth seem ready to leave behind the mindset that’s been tormenting our older generations & preventing us from securing our material & spiritual independence.
Pro-Israel organizations have been getting it wrong for over 20 years. But there are some simple changes they could make that would allow them to succeed.
Sinwar, the master Hamas magician in Gaza, knows exactly how to tug at the strings of Israeli society.
The argument today that Israel needs all the friends we can get, including evangelicals on a Jesus-centered mission, may or may not be valid. What’s unacceptable is the lack of transparency on the part of Jews who stridently defend groups like HaYovel.
From a Jewish perspective, Henry Kissinger was a tragic figure. He personified the ‘court Jew’ who made himself indispensable to powerful gentiles.
Israel has not won a war in more than 50 years. Will this war against Hamas in Gaza be different?
Israel must be understood in such a way that recognizes our unique identity & our place in the global struggle against imperialism.
By targeting non-Zionist Jewish institutions, Palestinian solidarity activists are ironically increasing the national consciousness of many Jews otherwise alienated from the Israeli state.
Our unhealthy pattern of shirking responsibility, cowing to foreign pressure & tolerating murder can only be overcome through psychological liberation.