As Israel becomes a more divisive issue on the Western left, questions about the Jewish connection to the Holy Land become more fraught. In this post, I continue my reflections on these questions.
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CAPTION: Ernest Renan, author of some canonical accounts of nationalism and peoplehood
In this post, I host a debate between nationalism, which defends the existence of states as we have in the current international system, and internationalism, which would have most states surrender much of their sovereignty to larger international units.
I am very grateful to The Tel Aviv Review for recently hosting a helpful and inspiring discussion on this topic with the inimitable peace activist, scholar, and liberal Zionist Yuli Tamir. You can check that episode out here. I invite readers to listen to their other episodes for more very helpful material related to this and many of my other posts.
In this post, I discuss the accusation that Israel engages in "Judaization" of Jerusalem and other areas in the Holy Land.
CAPTION: The remains of the 3rd century synagogue at Arbel in the Galilee.
In this post, I discuss the concern that Israel's Law of Return violates Liberal and Leftist principles.
One often hears that, as the stronger party, Israel bears the lion's share of the responsibility for the fact that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists. However, I argue that (a) although the Palestinians are the weaker party, their politics and culture also play highly significant roles in perpetuating the conflict--as they also must in solving it, if that is ever to happen--and (b) advocates of peace and justice who ignore Palestinians' agency are, in addition to being condescending towards Palestinians, setting themselves up for failure.
In this post, I will explain in a brief, general way what Zionism is, what Liberalism is (on one understanding of this rather ambiguous term), articulate some general Leftist principles that often accompany Liberalism, and explain how all of these things fit together.
In this post, I continue my reflections on the morality of Jewish immigration to The Holy Land in the 19th and 20th centuries. I focus on the accusation that Israel is guilty of colonialism, and characterizations of Palestinians as the indigenous people of The Holy Land.
In this post, I argue that most of the Jewish immigrants to the Holy Land in the 19th and 20th century came as refugees and not predominantly for ideological reasons.
In this post, I argue that the principle of "two-states for two peoples" is the only realistic and just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In this post, I present some basic facts about circumcision in Judaism, as well as a hypothesis about its social role. I discuss how this hypothesis might bear on the moral justification for this practice.
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