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...]
American Muslims to Saudis, American Jews to Israel: Why Do You Hate Us?
NOTE: I've just published a new piece at Middle East Eye, Israel elections: The vultures are circling Netanyahu. Read who's up, who's down, will Bibi survive, does any of it matter? Give it a read and please promote it via social media and e-mail. Saudi Arabia's curious response to the extraordinary feat of electing the first two Muslim-American women to … [Read more...]
Loving Israel, Hating Jews
Boy, that headline should bring some of you up short. I know when I was a liberal Zionist a few decades ago, it would've struck me as exceedingly strange. Then, 'Zionist' was a synonym for 'Jew.' You couldn't be a Zionist without being a Jew. And except for a few outliers who seemed beyond the Pale, you couldn't be a Jew without being a Zionist. How … [Read more...]
Trump in Warsaw Fighting Off the Mohammedan Hordes
Donald Trump's speech before the brutalist-style Warsaw Uprising (1944) memorial (take a look at the dark, gargantuan Nazi overshadowing Trump in the accompanying picture--this is an irony the planners of the speech seemed not to account for) in the run-up to the G-20 meeting this week, was a horror show. Commentators have compared it to his "American … [Read more...]
