Posts Tagged: Zionism
European-Funded Palestinian News Agency Publishes Article Denying the Holocaust
Just a day after issuing an apology for an anti-Semitic article published to its website, the European-funded Palestinian news service Ma'an News Agency published an...
Cynthia Ozick and William Shakespeare on Judith Butler: Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose
Will Judith Butler, who recently brought her frenzied campaign to expel Israel from the family of nations to Brooklyn College, be remembered as a latter-day...
Welcome to the “State of Palestine”?
Nationalism and peoplehood are just part of the ingredients of statehood, or rather state building. Pronouncing their existence does not actually connote that...
Opinion: The Wedge Issue
Given the small size of the Jewish population, the attention given to the Jewish vote is, almost by definition, disproportionate. But though the absolute numbers...
When is a House a Home in Hebron?
Seven years ago New York businessman Morris Abraham, through an intermediary and after prolonged negotiations, purchased a four-story building from its owner for nearly one...
Israel’s Right to Exist Not Based Upon UN Resolution
Regrettably, it is well-known and often lamented that public relations does not count among the Israelis' many talents. This is primarily the result of...
Israel’s Iran Dilemma: A Plea for Understanding
What does it mean to be faced by an existential threat? It means you, your family, your community, your city, your country and your nation could...
A Lost Opportunity of Historic Proportions
Ninety years ago last month, the League of Nations, the precursor to today's United Nations, approved the Mandate for Palestine, out of which Israel was...
The War Against the Jews
The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since...
Wistrich on “The Left, the Jews and Israel”
Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University professor of European and Jewish History and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism...
The ‘Cinematic Zionism’ of Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks shows no outright sense of shame or victimhood in his humorous films, but his Jewishness is there without ambivalence, according to...
Response to the Continuing Saga Afflicting Anglo Jewry
For those of you interested in following the issues raised in my recent column concerning the British UJIA, below is my response to...
JDC Gets New Director in Former Soviet Department
Ofer Glanz—previously an NGO, telecommunications and software executive—will take over as director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC) Former Soviet Union department, the...
Lenin’s Legacy: Why Jews Have Been Betrayed by the Radical Left
There are a few biographical details about Professor Robert Wistrich that people tend to overlook when evaluating the work of someone who is...
