The UN Agency Dedicated to the Palestinians Is Corrupt and Aims at Harming Israel
To help the descendants of refugees, close down UNRWA.
November 7, 2019
“Conditional Zionism” Demands That Israel Commit National Suicide for the Sake of Moral Legitimacy
Does Jewish morality require Israel to leave the West Bank?
A new attitude toward Israel, which Evelyn Gordon dubs “conditional Zionism,” has been gaining traction among American Jews. To its adherents, support for the Jewish state should be dependent on the righteousness of its conduct—a stipulation that, inevitably, is interpreted to mean an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. While the suggestion may be absurd on its face—after all, Gordon notes, Beijing’s persecution of the Uighurs doesn’t cause anyone to question China’s right to exist—it could, perhaps, be defended from the standpoint of Jewish theology:
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“Conditional Zionism” Demands That Israel Commit National Suicide for the Sake of Moral Legitimacy
Does Jewish morality require Israel to leave the West Bank?
When It Comes to the Poor, Jewish Law Aims Not at Equality but at Brotherhood
The Bible bequeathed to the world the obligation of poverty relief.
Ilhan Omar’s Very Selective Anti-Imperialism
“Western imperialism” may have been bad, but what about the kind that threatens the world today?
The Effervescence of Jewish Printing in Renaissance Italy
When other cities put Jews in ghettos, Sabbioneta oversaw a trailblazing printing press.