Let’s begin at the beginning: Israel is a theocracy. Not a democracy. To be more precise, it is an ethno-theocracy, in which a single religion enjoys supremacy over others; and that religion controls dominant levers of social and political state power. This may seem somewhat afield from the post title, but bear with me. Every […]
How Hitler Killed Half the Jewish Diaspora and Zionism Projects Death of the Rest
I recently participated in an online panel that accompanied the screening of the film documentary, Yiddish: the Mama Loshn, for the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. I was not invited to the panel as a Yiddishist or professor of Yiddish or Jewish history (the three other panel members were). Instead, director Pierre Sauvage asked me to […]
Conflating Judaism and Zionism: Bad for the Jews
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Star of David Debased by Apartheid
Almost every Jew takes pride when they see a Star of David (magen David) . For them, it represents Jewish peoplehood and solidarity. They wear it on chains around their neck. German Jewish soccer clubs used it as emblems on their uniforms before the Holocaust. Unfortunately, you even see Jewish visitors at Holocaust camps wrapping […]
