NOTE: Middle East Eye just published my latest piece on Israel’s attack on Iran’s Natanz centrifuge production facility. Please give it a read. As Christians will know, the founder of the Church, Paul, had a “conversion” on the road to Damascus, (the ‘Damascene Conversion’), which led him to break with his Jewish past and found […]
Ben Gurion Longed for a Zionist Thief, Now Israel is Run by Them
In the early days of the Yishuv, it’s cultural and political leaders and were heady with the task of nation-building. Unfortunately, they were nowhere near as high-minded as America’s Founding Fathers (with all their flaws). Israel’s first national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik said the dream of Zion would be redeemed when there were Jewish thieves, […]
Jacob De Haan: Zionism, Murder and Martyrdom
There are a number of figures who played major roles in the pre-State era who have unjustly faded into oblivion. Jacob De Haan is one of these. He packed more life into his short 43 years than others could pack in several lifetimes. He was a teacher, poet, journalist, lawyer and a close confidant of […]
Zionism and the Exploitation of Jewish Catastrophe
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 […]
