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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
1/22/2023
Eric Alterman on the Shifting Debate over Israel-Palestine in America
The writer discusses his conclusions about the evolution of the debate among American Jews about the nature of their relationship to Israel and the moral status of American policy.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/15/2023
Will the US Build an Embassy on Palestinian Land in Jerusalem?
by Rashid Khalidi
As the new ultra-right wing Israeli government prepares to escalate the dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the United States should not allow the siting of its embassy to give cover to this project.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/9/2023
The Demographic Shift Behind Israel's Ascendant Religious Zionists
by Michael Brenner
Demographics are pushing Orthodox religious nationalists, who are led by West Bank settlers, to political power that is forcing confrontations over both secularism and the occupation. This bloc is growing rapidly less friendly to compromise with secularists, Arabs, or LGBTQ Israelis.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/7/2023
Israel's Ruling Coalition Turns Toward Theocracy
by Bernard Avishai
Netanyahu has engineered an alliance among three disparate strains of religious parties and secular Israelis favoring an aggressive nationalism and occupation policy. But the religious parties have broader goals of undermining secular society in Israel.
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1/8/2022
Two Unlikely Champions of Fundamentalist Parties Show it's More about Power than Faith
by Donne Levy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to power after embracing religious fundamentalist parties in a coalition. Like his friend Donald Trump, he seems an unlikely leader for a faith-based constituency to embrace.
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SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
1/4/2023
Can Religious Zionists Reject the Religious Zionist Party?
by Gil Troy
Can religious Zionism survive being hijacked by a party of anti-democratic and anti-humanist zealots? One historian of Zionism says he's not on board with the Israeli far right.
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SOURCE: The Nation
1/5/2022
Is Israel Criticism the Reason Harvard Refused "Godfather" of Human Rights
by Michael Massing
Kenneth Roth retired from Human Rights Watch after nearly three decades, and expected to move to a fellowship at the Kennedy School. Dean Douglas Elmendorf told him his fellowship was rejected because HRW exhibited "anti-Israel bias." Is the school insufficiently independent of the American foreign policy establishment and its donors?
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SOURCE: The Nation
12/21/2022
Will MAGA Be the Last Straw for Conservative Jews' Partnership with the Christian Right?
by Eric Alterman
Since the 1970s, an alliance between Christian and Jewish conservatives has been brokered over mutual support for Israel's occupation and settlement of the West Bank. Are changing attitudes toward the occupation among American Jews and the naked antisemitism of the MAGA right breaking the alliance?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/20/2022
Israel's Religious Right Pushes for Restrictive Changes to Law of Return
As Jews around the world are considering Israel as a refuge from antisemitism, that country's religious fundamentalist parties have the political leverage to decide that many fewer people are Jewish enough to qualify for immigration and citizenship. American Reform Jews are particularly affected.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
10/13/2022
The Women Who Secured the Balfour Declaration
by Natalie Livingstone
Women in the Rothschild family were instrumental in creating support among wealthy British Jews for Zionism, which they had previously rejected out of perceived self-interest and disdain for the Jewish masses.
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SOURCE: National Interest
9/5/2022
Walter Russell Mead's Contrary View of the Roots of the US-Israel Alliance
In Mead's account, American Christians, with an affinity for viewing the Old Testament as part of the nation's heritage, not the machinations of modern Jewish organizations, brought American policy to support a Jewish state.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/9/2022
Walter Russell Mead: Non-Jewish Interest Groups, not "Israel Lobby" Drive Hawkish US Mideast Policy
Rejecting the idea of a Jewish-led "Israel Lobby" Mead emphasizes the historical influence of American Christian zionists and militarists in tilting America's mideast policy toward the goals of the Israeli right.
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SOURCE: Tablet
6/6/2022
Two Books on Israeli Nationalism Show a Growing Divide on Zionism in America
by Ari Hoffman
Books by Omri Boehm and Yossi Shain take diametrically opposed positions on the historical and contemporary merits of Zionism as institutionalized in the Israeli state, and signal the growth of a polarization in the American Jewish community.
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4/17/2022
Does Israel's Right Cultivate a Permanent Enemy to Justify a Permanent Occupation?
by Alon Ben-Meir
The vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians have been born since the occupation began. The current Israeli government seems content to exploit violent outbreaks like those of recent weeks to ensure that no one seriously imagines alternatives.
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SOURCE: American Association of University Professors
4/1/2022
AAUP ID's Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism
A recent AAUP report connects two politicized areas of inquiry – the history of racism in America and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – as the principal targets of right-wing efforts to censor reseach and teaching.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/2/2022
Yad Vashem Hopes to Shield Oligarch and Major Donor Roman Abramovich from Sanctions
“Mr. Abramovich has contributed to worthy causes for more than a decade,” [Yad Vashem chair Dani] Dayan said. “As far as I know, Mr. Abramovich doesn’t have any links to Mr. Putin.”
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2/20/2022
Martin Indyk Writes the Palestinians Out of the History of Kissinger's Middle East Diplomacy
by James R. Stocker
Martin Indyk’s new work offers a vivid portrait of the former Secretary of State’s Arab-Israeli diplomacy, but he completely misses one of the most important parts of this policy – the Palestinians.
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2/6/2022
Attacking Iran would be a Catastrophic Mistake for Israel
by Alon Ben-Meir
Regardless of a success or failure to reach a new agreement with Iran, Israel must not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and must work closely with the US to develop a joint strategy to curb Iran’s ambition to acquire nuclear weapons and potentially end the conflict with Iran on a more permanent basis.
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SOURCE: Forward
1/22/2022
Israeli Documentary Works to Break Silence over 1948 Israeli-Arab Violence
Director Alon Schwartz examines the events in the town of Tantura, where an Israeli militia is alleged to have killed 200 Arab residents. Oral history interviews with surviving members of the militia are key, but controversial, pieces of evidence.
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SOURCE: Haaretz
12/12/2021
Haaretz Editorial: Israel Must Acknowledge War Crimes in 1948 Fight for Independence
"It is time to acknowledge the truth, and first to publish the report by the first attorney general, Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira, on the massacres of the dark autumn of 1948... and to hold a penetrating public discussion of their implications today."
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