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Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Protecting Jews
Trump’s new executive order on antisemitism targets university campuses and the left. It doesn’t address the more virulent antisemitism on the right — by far the bigger danger to Jews.
‘Unsettling Ideology’: A deep dive into Settler Colonialism, Part II
…perfect justice, Kirsch argues, would mean restoring the Land of Israel to the Jews who were driven out of it by the Romans and also to the Palestinian Arabs who have been denied sovereignty by the Jews. “But any attempt to secure the country for just one of these peoples would inflict suffering on millions…”
‘Unsettling Ideology’: A deep dive into Settler Colonialism, Part I
With the permission of the Jewish Review of Books, TTN is posting in two parts, “Unsettling Ideology,” Michael Walzer’s review of Adam Kirsch’s book, “On Settler Colonialism,” published in its Fall 2024 issue, beginning here.
Where 2024 Leaves Israel in 2025
2024 represents yet more descent down the slippery slope toward a conflicted, non-democratic, immoral, isolated, messianic and binational entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Yet … Israel’s security community registered dramatic victories over Iran, Hezbollah and almost the entire Axis of Resistance or Shiite Crescent.
Is Beinart’s Tirade against Blinken Fair?
… the Biden administration has wanted both to support Israel at a genuine hour of need and to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Gaza. This proved insufficient given the nature of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s extremist coalition government and the fanatical nature of Hamas, which is singularly indifferent to the suffering of its people.
Arab & Jewish Israelis ‘Standing Together’
Bringing Arabs & Jews together is a rebuke to rejectionists on university campuses & social media. BDS added Standing Together to its boycott list, damning it for “normalizing” interactions with Israeli Jews—a threat to sclerotic orthodoxies of left & right, alike.
Would One State be ‘Binational’ or ‘Eliminationist’?
Despite my disagreement with some of Prof. Khalidi’s views, I appreciate his anguish over the ongoing suffering of his people, and hope against hope that they and the people of Israel will emerge from their mutual horrors with a two-state peace.
Will Israel Miss a Historic Opportunity with Syria?
The October 7 Hamas attack has reset a new regional order in the Middle East, thanks in part to Israel’s offensive moves against Hezbollah and Iran. But these may be creating political openings for a more peaceful future.
Lebanese-Canadian Plea for Dialogue & Peace
“I came to understand that the current conflict is not all black and white as some people paint it. I learned how important Israel is to Jews worldwide, especially in the present times, why it had been created, but also how Israelis had been affected by the past decades of intermittent war with its Arab neighbours.”