The Israeli Left Shoots Itself in the Foot by Demonizing Benjamin Netanyahu
He’s done nothing anti-democratic—and he’s curbed the growth of settlements.
January 25, 2019
The Theological, Political, and Personal Roots of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Zionism
Philo-Semitism and an appreciation of national freedom.
One of the most influential Protestant thinkers of 20th-century America, Reinhold Niebuhr also helped lay the theoretical foundations for the cold-war liberalism of the postwar decades. He was, moreover, a vocal supporter of Zionism since at least the 1930s, believing that Jews were entitled not just to rights as individuals, but as a nation. Indeed, even before coming to Zionism, Niebuhr had already broken from what was then accepted Christian thinking concerning the Jews. Shalom Goldman writes:
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How British Universities Fell into the Clutches of the Anti-Israel Movement
The media and student unions take one side, and administrators won’t push back.
Anti-Boycott Laws Don’t Violate the First Amendment
The ACLU’s perverse argument.
The Theological, Political, and Personal Roots of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Zionism
Philo-Semitism and an appreciation of national freedom.
The Democratic Teaching of the Covenant at Sinai
A higher law and the consent of the governed.