More Than Two Centuries of Precedent Support Laws Protecting Israel from Boycotts
Conduct, not speech.
February 10, 2023
How Israel Got Its Declaration of Independence
Antecedents both American and biblical.
While the Jewish state has no written constitution—an absence at the very heart of the country’s current political disputes—it does have a declaration of independence, deliberately modeled on the American one. Neil Rogachevsky tells the story if its composition, and the intellectual currents behind it, in conversation with Bill Kristol. (Video, 74 minutes. To download the audio or listen in podcast form, click on the link below.)
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How Israel Got Its Declaration of Independence
Antecedents both American and biblical.
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