Posts Tagged: Zionism
Antisemitism in the Shadow of the Holocaust
My earliest memory of the word “Holocaust” was a bedtime story that my mother told us soon after giving birth to her fifth child, my...
How to Keep Zionism Alive for Generation Z
What is in store for the relationship between Zionism and Generation "Z"? The answer to that question depends entirely on the actions we as leaders take...
More Than 350 Academics Sign Open Letter in Support of IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
A group of more than 350 academics from institutions around the world have signed a new letter in support of the adoption of the International...
Skidmore College Says ‘Progressive Zionists for Peace’ Now Approved to Form Trial Club
New York’s Skidmore College said Saturday that a student committee had reversed its decision and granted students a trial period for the “Progressive Zionists for...
Cornel West Again Blames Israel Views for Harvard Tenure Denial, as Jewish Student Leaders Call Petition ‘Absurd’ and ‘Harmful’
Student representatives of Jewish and pro-Israel groups at Harvard University said they were “deeply hurt” by a petition drive in support of outspoken academic Cornel...
A Bicentennial to Mark Modern Zionism
Not many Jews today recall a 19th-century Jewish leader who wrote a booklet that inspired young Jews to move to the Land of Israel. The man...
Turkish Textbooks Increasingly Demonize Israel and Zionism, Refer to Jews as ‘Infidels,’ Says New Report
A new report has found that the latest editions of Turkish school textbooks take a strongly negative view of Israel and now describe Jews as...
Why the Israeli Left’s Leadership Capacity Is Fading
The renowned Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua posed the challenging question: “People of Israel, what do you live for?” He went on, “Survival is not a...
Why I’m a Zionist
JNS.org - There are negative reasons to be a Zionist, and there are affirmative reasons. The negative ones, which relate to historical anti-Jewish hatred and abuse, make...
Israel Still Pays a Heavy Price for the UN ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Resolution
This is a time for anniversaries of events that have caused great harm to the Jewish people: the 25th of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin,...
This Is the Time for a ‘Zionist Spring’
JNS.org - Israel-haters must not be very happy these days. All of a sudden, the big lie that nourished their anti-Zionist venom for so long...
The Deafening Media Silence: Hamas’ Terror Attacks on Israel
JNS.org - For weeks, while communities in Israel burned, many major US news outlets kept silent. Hamas, the US-designated terror group that rules the Gaza...
Zionism, Messianism and the Question of the Settlements
At least 500,000 Israelis live in territories won in the 1967 Six-Day War, and possibly a great deal more than that. They reside everywhere from...
Reform Jews and Early American Zionism
The story of Zionism and Reform Judaism in America began in the 1820s, when Charleston Jews left the traditional Congregation Beth Elohim to found their...
