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The Magnes Zionist: Roger Cohen’s Distortions of the Goldstone Op-Ed

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Roger Cohen’s Distortions of the Goldstone Op-Ed. The amount of rubbish circulating on the internet from the left and the right about the Goldstone Washington Post op-ed is staggering. The right's distortions, though more egregious, is understandable; after all, the rightwingers never read the Goldstone Report so why should they read the op-ed? For example, Goldstone writes:. You walk next to a swimming po...

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The Magnes Zionist: Two States in One Homeland Initiative–Thanks but No Thanks

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Friday, June 5, 2015. Two States in One Homeland Initiative–Thanks but No Thanks. I was asked last summer by a friend what was my reaction to the Two States in One Homeland. 1 The implicit acceptance of Zionism by Palestinians. 2 The parity between the Jewish and Palestinian peoples. 3 Immigration and Naturalization. No mention is made here about sovereignty. Who does Jerusalem belong to? Am I right here? Because Jews are members ...

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The Magnes Zionist: It’s Time for Liberal Zionists to Support Some Sticks against the Netanyahu Government

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. It’s Time for Liberal Zionists to Support Some Sticks against the Netanyahu Government. Liberal Zionists don’t like the global BDS movement, but they also think that the Obama administration should get tough with the Netanyahu government. Josh Ruebner, the Policy Director of the US Campaign to End the Occupation, wrote a good piece in The Hill. 1 Clog the arms pipeline. Dozens of organizations currently re...

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The Magnes Zionist: Right Wing Nation

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Update, March 18, morning, Jerusalem:. Israel is a Right Wing Nation. What is “center” in Israel is right in the rest of the world. What is “right” is extreme right is, well, you fill in that one. Even had Herzog evened the score with Netanyahu he would not have been able to create an alternative government. That has been clear from the beginning. Whether there is a narrow rightwing government, or a centri...

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The Magnes Zionist: Operation Protective Edge and the Israel Defense Forces Testimonies

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Operation Protective Edge and the Israel Defense Forces Testimonies. Several days ago, the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, which takes testimonies from IDF soldiers, published a. Of over sixty testimonies of soldiers involved in Operation “Protective Edge”, the Gaza Op of last summer. The report has been overshadowed by other news from Israel, and aside from a long (and good) report in the. And, as pointed...

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The Magnes Zionist: On Demonizing the Enemy

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Thursday, August 7, 2014. On Demonizing the Enemy. Do you think that Hamas celebrates death, intends to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, deliberately fires rockets from populated areas in order to increase Palestinian casualties and to embarrass Israel on the world stage, and forces Gazan civilians to act as human shields? Do you think they built tunnels for this purpose? 8221; To them I ask, “How are the Palestin...

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The Magnes Zionist: Anti-Israel Blacklist or Human Rights Protest? How the Media Misreported a Teacher Union’s Request

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Friday, June 12, 2015. Anti-Israel Blacklist or Human Rights Protest? How the Media Misreported a Teacher Union’s Request. A story reported last week by Inside Higher Education. Read like a McCarthyist nightmare: A Brazilian university administrator urgently requested information on Israeli students and professors in order to comply with a request from “pro-Palestinian groups”. According to the story, reported also by YNET. On Aug...

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The Magnes Zionist: The “High Level International Military Group” on Operation Protective Edge

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Sunday, June 14, 2015. The “High Level International Military Group” on Operation Protective Edge. These are sad days for Israel/Palestine, but today I got a kick out of a story that I thought at first was produced by the satirical mag, the Onion. The timing is viewed as as preemptive assault on the Human Rights Council report due out next week. Here is how the AP reported the release. It will be recalled that William Chabas, &#82...

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The Magnes Zionist: The Shalom Hartman Institute, the Muslim Leadership Initiative, and “Faith Washing”

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Thursday, January 29, 2015. The Shalom Hartman Institute, the Muslim Leadership Initiative, and “Faith Washing”. The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, in some of whose programs I have participated, runs one called the Muslim Leadership Initiative. Here is a description of the program from the Hartman Institute website:. Jewish Voice for Peace, of which I am a member, has issued the following statement. We underscore that bein...

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The Magnes Zionist: On Offensive Speech and Ethnic Sensitivities -- Part One

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Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective. Sunday, September 14, 2014. On Offensive Speech and Ethnic Sensitivities - Part One. The above is a composite of several reactions to the post below that I would like to examine. But before I do, consider the following case, taken from Brian Klug’s essay,. Offence: the Jewish Case. Klug writes of the offending banner:. But more of this in Part Two. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jeremiah (Jerry) Haber is the nom de plume of C...