Though I have always had sympathy for the general goals of creating a Jewish homeland for victims of persecution and genocide, I am critical of the ways in which Zionism pursued that objective. From the very beginning, even in Herzl's writings, there are the seeds of ethnic-nationalism, racism and even anti-Semitism, which permeate Israel today. … [Read more...]
Senior Israeli Security Minister: We Will Redeem the Temple Mount, Make It Ours
NOTE: This is an expanded version of an article published earlier this week by Middle East Eye. The headline blasted off the pages of Israel HaYom: Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, boasted: “Freedom of worship on the Temple Mount? It can happen in the next few years, a decade at most.” The explicit meaning is clear to all Israelis: Erdan … [Read more...]
Trump Abandons Syria and Kurds to Putin, Erdogan and Assad
NOTE: Middle East Eye just published my account of a disturbing interview with Israeli Internal Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, in which he declares that Israel will topple the current status quo at the Haram al Sharif. Erdan also intimates that Israel plans to rebuild the Temple, thus implying that the holy mosques would be in danger. Since Trump's … [Read more...]
A Love Affair: The Zionist and the Nazi
Many years ago, I was researching the history of political assassinations within the Zionist movement for an essay which the London Review of Books commissioned (and then refused to publish). One of the intriguing murders was that of Chaim Arlosoroff in Tel Aviv in 1933. But it wasn't just the circumstances of his killing and the fact that to this day … [Read more...]
