Its narrative focus is upon the evolving partnership and friendship of two filmmakers — one a villager and the other an Arabic-speaking Israeli journalist, who is readily accepted for who he is, a “Yahud” (Jew) who has come in solidarity.
This Israeli journalist was shocked by the police raid on the Educational Bookshop, a highly regarded institution in East Jerusalem, and the arrest of its owner and his nephew.
My dream scenario would be the imposition of moderate Arab forces and funding to oversee reconstruction and to shepherd in governance under a reformed Palestinian Authority, with the ultimate goal of negotiating peace with Israel.
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.
…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…”
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.
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.
… 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.
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.
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.
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