Zionism
Resources:
|
Dear world, we need to talk about safe spaces. by Shai Davidai, Medium, January 22, 2024
Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Common Sense by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, December 7, 2023
Debates over the link between antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not going away, but in some ways they are beside the point. Anti-Zionism can be just as noxious as antisemitism, and something need not be antisemitic to be beyond the pale. [….] I can absolutely point to anti-Zionism that I would not dub antisemitic, and I also know that given what is taking place in the streets of cities and on college campuses, this does not seem to be the time to take stands based on theoretical frameworks.
An Indigenous Zionist Speaks Out by Deysy Edith Tacza, Tablet, October 20, 2023
I stood up for Israel and have been talked down to ever since.
Essentially American: Zionism through the lens of US Jews by William Daroff, Israel Hayom, July 25, 2023
Zionism constitutes a pillar of Jewish life in America: Jewish communal institutions started supporting Israel since before its re-establishment as a state.
Rewriting Hatikva: The significance of President Herzog’s speech by Michael Rainsbury, The Times of Israel, July 20, 2023
In asserting the hope that we can strive to ‘heal our fractured world,’ Herzog put forward a new conception of Zionism.
Towards an old/new Zionist paradigm by Shlomi Ravid, eJewish Philanthropy, June 14, 2023
The Zionist dream at 75 by Asaf Romirowsky, Jewish News Syndicate, April 25, 2023
Zionism’s Moment of Decision by Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, April 19, 2023
The massive protests preceding Israel’s 75th birthday have resurrected a century-old question that now demands an answer: A Jewish state or state for Jews?
Judaism Can’t Exist Without Zionism by Sabrina Soffer, The Algemeiner, March 29, 2023
Masters of our own destiny by Andrés Spokoiny, eJewish Philanthropy, March 6, 2023
Purim is, in fact, the story of the Diaspora in a nutshell. It is the story of living at the mercy of capricious kings, being called “globalists” and “disloyal,” being always “different,” always “tolerated,” never fully accepted.
The Rise of American Zionism by Allan Arkush, Mosaic, November 7, 2022
Shocked by World War I, American Jews turned to Zionism as a way to save their European brethren. Their support came at just the right moment to affect the course of Jewish history.
We are Jews because we are Zionists, we are Zionists because we are Jews by Naya Lekht, Jewish News Syndicate, October 3, 2022
The struggle against anti-Zionism is the struggle for the freedom to be our true, authentic selves.
On Anti-Zionism, Idolatry and Adultery by Daniel Gordis, Israel from the Inside, July 26, 2022
No community can survive without limits on what is considered legitimate
Why Does America Support Israel? by Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, July 14, 2022
A conversation with historian Walter Russell Mead about misconceptions of Jewish power and the decidedly non-Jewish roots of support for the Jewish state
Ten Spies, 60 Israeli Teenagers, Istanbul and Theodor Herzl by Daniel Gordis, Israel from the Inside, June 20, 2022
The “new Jew” Zionism so desperately sought to create, now everywhere one turns
Judaism and Zionism Are Inseparable by Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Sapir Vol. 5, Spring 2022 (PDF)
Gil Troy, “The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow”
Zionism Remains a Freedom Struggle by Bret Stephens, Sapir Vol. 5, Spring 2022 (PDF)
Israel’s Independence Day and Jewish Independence by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow’s Column, May 5, 2022
The True Origins of Modern Zionism (9’08”), Unpacked, March 9, 2022
Zionism’s Next Great Task by Ofir Haivry, Sapir, Winter 2022
Video: DMFI in Conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf (52’47”), December 13, 2021
Is Iran about to undo Zionism’s very purpose? by Daniel Gordis, Israel from the Inside, December 6, 2021
It’s not their using that weapon, but having it, that could change everything.
If you are going to spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’ by Kenneth L. Marcus, The Times of Israel, September 7, 2021
That hyphen wrongly suggests that those who oppose Zionism are against what it really is, as opposed to what they imagine it to be
Video: White Colonialist Settler-Occupier Zionist Israeli (2’44”), Ashager Araro, June 1, 2021
Why I’m a Zionist by Douglas J. Feith, National Review, January 18, 2021
And how support for a Jewish state is eminently compatible with American patriotism.
If You Will It, It Is No Dream… But Only On Our Terms by Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, February 10, 2020
Zionism Didn’t End in 1948 by Zachary Schaffer, The Times of Israel, February 7, 2020
What Salman Abu Sitta misrepresents about Zionism by Bren Carlill, ABC Australia, January 21, 2020
Video: “Zionist” vs. “Pro-Israel,” Amanda Berman in Addressing Jewish Identity on Campus in Today’s Tense Climate (starting at 19’50”), Unpacked for Educators, January 2020
Alex Ryvchin, “Zionism: The Concise History”
Zionism As A Reflection of Jewish History Past and Present by Bennett Ruda, Jewish Press, November 24, 2019
An interview with Alex Ryvchin, author of Zionism: The Concise History
Does anti-Zionism always mean anti-Semitism? Peter Beinart: No vs Bret Stephens: Yes, National Post, November 27, 2019
Why Anti-Zionism Is Worse Than Antisemitism by Benjamin Kerstein, The Algemeiner, October 23, 2019
A negative, defensive Zionism by Gil Troy, The Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2019
American Jewry’s Israel conversation needs an overhaul.
Zionism Outside of Zion by Rabbi Elchanan Poupko, JewishPress.com, July 12, 2019
Inspiration and a Rallying Cry for Jewish Students and Graduates by Judea Pearl, The Algemeiner, June 28, 2019
Video: Antisemitism, anti-Zionism, Judaism and Israel (5’57”), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, April 30, 2019
Nobody knows what Zionism means anymore. Two historians help explain why. by Ariel Sobel, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 14, 2019
Is Zionism to Jews what Feminism is to Women? by Dina Rabhan, Jerusalem U, January 28, 2019
Yes, Anti-Zionism Is the Same as Anti-Semitism by David Harsanyi, The Federalist, January 8, 2019
‘Anti-Zionism’ is the predominant justification for violence, murder, and hatred against Jews in Europe and the Middle East. It’s now infiltrating American politics.
Farmers and Fighters: The Making of the Land by Douglas Feith, Tablet, October 24, 2018
If your child came home from college and said she was challenged by a classmate who claimed that Palestine is Arab land stolen by the Jews, could you provide her with a response?
The Loneliness Of The Liberal Zionist by Jarrod Tanny, The Forward, June 5, 2018
[Being a liberal Zionist] means being homeless in America’s increasingly binary political landscape. There is no other ethno-cultural minority in America targeted with such ferocity from the left and the right.
At Home In That Other Promised Land by Yehuda Kurtzer, The New York Jewish Week, May 30, 2018: Does Zionism ask too much of the American Jewish community?
Making The Case For Passionate, Progressive Zionism by Gary Rosenblatt, The New York Jewish Week, May 30, 2018: As the Israel-diaspora rift grows, Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs plays a key role in seeking to engage disengaged young Jews.
Present At The Creation: Zionists Before Zionism by Jonathan Mark, The New York Jewish Week, May 30, 2018: An older generation knew the 70 years before ’48.
Zionism and the Wedge Between US and Israeli Jews by Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 24, 2018
Israel at 70: It’s time to reclaim the Z-word, Zionism by Gil Troy, The Times of Israel, April 4, 2018
Zionism and the Changing Global Structure by David Hazony and Adam Scott Bellos, The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2017
The new Zionism will focus less on statecraft and more on expansive creativity. Put another way: Zionism’s last century was about creating the conditions for Jewish survival in a sovereign state; its next century will be about thriving, building outward, and sharing with the world.
Video: Zionism: 120 Years 120 Seconds (2’08”), World Zionist Organization, November 25, 2017
Who Saved Israel in 1947? by Martin Kramer, Mosaic, November 6, 2017
The usual answer is Truman—but it could just as easily be Stalin. In fact, thanks to Zionist diplomacy, it was both; and therein lies a lesson for the Jewish state today.
Why Zionism Is Losing Its Steam And How We Must Combat That Drift by Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, The Jewish Week, September 8, 2017
A letter to my (yet unborn) great-grandchild on why I’m making aliyah.
The Accidental Zionist by Gary C. Gambill, The Jerusalem Post, September 5, 2017
Optimism Takes Many Forms by Daniel Gordis, The Jerusalem Post, August 2, 2017
Video Series, Origins of Zionism by Zionism 101, June-July 2017: Part 1: The Covenant (7’48”), Part 2: Dream of Return (6’58”), Part 3: Modern Zionism (9’05”)
The Fight for Zion by Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, April 4, 2017
“There is no difference whatever between antisemitism and the denial of Israel’s statehood. Classical antisemitism denies the equal right of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination.” – Abba Eban
A Liberal Zionism for the Trump Era by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Koplow Column, March 6, 2017
The Intersectional Power of Zionism by Einat Wilf, The Tower, December 15, 2016
Video: Re-imagining Zionism for the Twenty-First Century (21’07”), Daniel Gordis at the Oshman JCC, Palo Alto, September 2016
Once again, today’s Rorschach test for American Jews by Hayim Herring, The Times of Israel, August 11, 2016
Brexit and the validation of Zionism by Daniel Gordis, The Jerusalem Post, July 2, 2016
Zionism Out of the Box by Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud, Israel Policy Forum Matzav Blog, June 24, 2016
Not Being a Zionist is No Heresy by Daniel Gordis, The Jerusalem Post, June 16, 2016
Video: Lord Jonathan Sacks: ‘Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism’ (4’41”), BBC Newsnight, June 1, 2016
The Crisis of Anti-Zionism by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum Matzav Blog, May 5, 2016
No, Peter Beinart: Anti-Zionism is indeed a form of anti-Semitism by Andrés Spokoiny, Haaretz, April 20, 2016
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. It holds that Jews, like any other people, have the right to national self-determination. Denying that right to Jews, and only to Jews, can’t be called anything other than anti-Semitism. [….] Most anti-Zionists wholeheartedly embrace other national movements, or at least fail to condemn the existence of any nation state other than Israel. Most notably, anti-Zionists often champion Palestinian national aspirations, but the stark double standard seems to escape them.
Zionism at the Crossroads by Brent E. Sasley, Israel Policy Forum Matzav Blog, April 5, 2016
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Nevet Basker, The Times of Israel, April 4, 2016
Rejecting Zionist Principles Is a Rejection of Jews by Daniel Gordis, The New York Times, April 4, 2016 (see also Self-Determination Is Crucial for Jews by Benjamin Gladstone, The New York Times, April 4, 2016)
The “fundamental rejection of the idea of a Jewish State [is] by definition the newest form of the centuries-old virus called anti-Semitism. It is illegitimate. It is immoral. And it needs to be stopped.”
Why Support Israel? by Nevet Basker, The Times of Israel, February 25, 2016
Is It Wrong To Want A Jewish Mayor Of Jerusalem? by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, February 25, 2016
The Roots of Anti-Israel Attitudes by Efraim Inbar, The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, January 6, 2016
The Progressive Case For Israel by Binyamin Arazi, Israelicool.com, January 4, 2016
What Exactly is Zionism? by Andrew Meyer, In Focus, December 30, 2015
Zionism is how I connect to my Judaism [….] It is a new way to insult Jewish people without directly coming off as anti-Semitic.
A Zionism of Excuses by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, November 19, 2015
Video: Three Narratives of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1:27’35”), Micah Goodman (Shalom Hartman Institute), Herzl Ner-Tamid Congregation (Mercer Island, Washington), November 16, 2015
To Fight Anti-Semites, Jews Must Defend Zionism by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, September 4, 2015
Reclaiming Zionism by Lilia Gaufberg, The Times of Israel, August 5, 2015
I’m Young. I’m Liberal. And Yes, I’m Zionist. by J.E. Reich, The Forward, July 20, 2015
The night Ahad Ha’am could have declared victory by Daniel Gordis, The Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2015
The Politics Of Loyalty by Yehuda Kurtzer, The Jewish Week, May 27, 2015
Simply put, one of the greatest philosophical mistakes we Jews made following the creation of Israel was the too-quick transformation of Zionism from a discourse of imagination into a discourse of loyalty. [….] Retrieving Zionism as an imaginative discourse for the Jewish people is the best answer to the “crisis” of liberal Zionism.
The new danger for Israel on campus by Donniel Hartman, The Times of Israel, May 27, 2015
The days of survival Zionism as inspiring and relationship building for North American Jews are largely over, and will, God willing, remain so. The primary foundation for a relationship between young North American Jews and Israel in the future will be Cultural Zionism. Not, however, in its past, chauvinist sense of Israel’s superiority, but in the sense of Israel contributing together with North American Jewish life in the creation of a vital Judaism for the twenty-first century.
Obama: Denying Israel’s Right to Exist as a Jewish Homeland is Anti-Semitic by Yair Rosenberg, Tablet, May 22, 2015
Obama defined anti-Zionism—as distinct from sharp, public criticism of Israel and its policies—as anti-Semitism. In his construction, denying Israel’s right to exist (i.e. Zionism) is to deny the lessons of history and betray a deeply flawed moral outlook. [….] To consign the Jews to statelessness, in Obama’s view, would undo the painful progress made by the world towards treating them as equals and protecting them from prejudice. It would turn back the clock to a much darker time, when Jews had no national home to stand up for their rights and offer them refuge.
Denying Jews the Right to Define Judaism is Anti-Semitism by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, May 13, 2015
Is Zionism Racism? by Anne Roiphe, Tablet, April 13, 2015
Israel is not a normal state. Here’s why.
The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism by Eric Cohen, Mosaic , April 6, 2015 [long piece; the relevant section is IV: “The Meaning of Jewish Nationalism”]
Zionism is Here to Stay by Amos Yadlin and Uri Sadot, InFocus Quarterly Volume IX, No. 2, March 2015
On the Current Crisis in Israel’s Constitution by Yoram Hazony, Jerusalem Letters No. 33, March 29, 2015
I am a Zionist by Yair Lapid, YNetNews.com, January 30, 2009