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 […]
Labour’s Anti-Semitism “Crisis” is Bollocks
The current so-called anti-Semitism crisis in the British Labour Party is founded on a complete misunderstanding of what anti-Semitism really is. It is based on a complete misunderstanding of Jewish history and the real suffering of the Jewish people over the centuries. Today, anti-Semitism poses nowhere near the danger it once did to the Jewish […]
