Repost: Matti Friedman, "An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"

Repost: Matti Friedman, "An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"

2013, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed 42 lives— roughly the monthly homicide rate in the city of Chicago. Jerusalem, internationally renowned as a city of conflict, had slightly fewer violent deaths per capita last year than Portland, Ore., one of America’s safer cities. In contrast, in three years the Syrian conflict has claimed an estimated 190,000 lives…

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Zionists are not banned. Jews are.

Zionists are not banned. Jews are.

In 1973, the Palestinian Authority imposed martial law, and banned non-Arabs from buying land, punishable by death or life imprisonment. From this point on, ~2M+ Arabs enjoyed full rights in Israel, while risking imprisonment and death for expressing those same rights under Palestinian leadership. There is no mention of the word “Zionist”…

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Repost: Zack Rothbart, “Everyone knows about Herzl. Is it time for Max Nordau, the intermarried father of Zionism, to get his due?”
REPOST, Jews, Israeli History, Zionists, Culture Guy Ginton REPOST, Jews, Israeli History, Zionists, Culture Guy Ginton

Repost: Zack Rothbart, “Everyone knows about Herzl. Is it time for Max Nordau, the intermarried father of Zionism, to get his due?”

He also coined the term “Muscular Judaism” — a redefinition of what it meant to be a Jew in the modern world; a critical shift away from the traditionally insular, “meek” Jewish archetype devoted solely to religious and intellectual pursuits. The “Muscular Jew” in theory and practice was necessary in order for a modern Jewish state to be established.

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Repost: Emma Goldman, "On Zionism"

Repost: Emma Goldman, "On Zionism"

I have been taught that the land should belong to those who till the soil. With all of his deep-seated sympathies with the Arabs, our comrade cannot possibly deny that the Jews in Palestine have tilled the soil. Tens of thousands of them, young and deeply devout idealists, have flocked to Palestine, there to till the soil under the most trying pioneer conditions. They have reclaimed wastelands and have turned them into fertile fields and blooming gardens.

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