Is Barack Obama Nostalgic for a “White” Israel?
The kibbutz Israel he's nostalgic for was a font of ethnic chauvinism.
May 27, 2015
Is Barack Obama Nostalgic for a “White” Israel?
The kibbutz Israel he's nostalgic for was a font of ethnic chauvinism.
In a recent interview, the president discussed his nostalgia for the Israel of “kibbutzim, and Moshe Dayan, and Golda Meir,” an Israel which, he claimed, saw Zionism as a project of “remaking the world.” He would make similar remarks in his address to the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington. David Bernstein notes that this translates to nostalgia for a less diverse Israel:
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