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The word “Zionism” has been weaponized, twisted, and deliberately stripped of its meaning. Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people, like every other people on earth, have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. That’s it. Nothing more. It contains no hatred of Arabs, no contempt for Palestinians, no designs on the rights […]
Israel Independence Day
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It's remarkable how quickly such a young country like Israel has become a global leader in medicine, innovation, and technology. But perhaps more important than what Israel has built is the shared purpose, meaning, and hope it has created for Jews everywhere. Here are five things you may not know about Israel today. 1. Israel […]
The Myth of the Empty Land When we learn Jewish history, the story of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel seems to end with the Jewish-Roman wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries. From there, normative history courses shift to the Diaspora: the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the Golden Age in Spain, Jewish […]
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Tucker Carlson and John Mearsheimer claimed they couldn't think of a single time in the last 40 years when the US chose its own interests over Israel's. I decided to jog their memory.
