For the Zionists, the drive to climb the blood-soaked ladder of imperialism, to no longer be on the bottom rungs, shrouded not only their humanity but their own cultural teachings.
My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people.
Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism is a powerful collection of 40 essays by Jews from diverse backgrounds. Each describes a personal journey from a Zionist worldview to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build a society founded on justice, equality, and peaceful coexistence. In this excerpt from the essay “Palestine and
“Was this what they died for? My relatives, all those Jews, all those thousands of names on the memorials? Was this horror of a racist, repressive state the result of their deaths?”
Bear with me. This is very difficult to write, but write it I must, however much the putting of words on paper intensifies the pain.
When I was a small girl on a street corner in Budapest, watching a convoy of camp inmates being returned, I cried. No, not tears. By
“Judaism is a religion and Zionism is a movement. For a lot of people, they don’t have a connection to a Jewish institution or community, so they look at Israel as a Jewish community,” an organizer for Jewish Voice for Peace tells MintPress.
RAMALLAH --- Dan Cohen didn’t always write about Israeli apartheid or the Palestinian struggle. The Jewish journalist was raised in a community of Zionist-filled ideologies in Arizona, and it wasn’t until just a few years ago that he decided to dedicate his life to challenging the media’s narrative by gathering the truth
The bill is a variant of a proposal that would’ve made the same definition, but guaranteed equal rights for all ethnic and religious minorities. Netanyahu’s version removed all mentions of equal rights.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to push his bill to change the nation’s Basic Laws to define Israel as an exclusively Jewish State, despite growing signs that the wildly controversial bill is splitting the coalition, and indeed
In spite of the deeply entrenched Israel-Palestine conflict, religious leaders from both sides are working to bridge the divide.
“The very word ‘peace’ has become negatively charged for many people,” observed Rabbi Amy Eilberg at a recent public lecture at Hamline University that brought together a rabbi and a qadi -- an Islamic judge -- from Israel to highlight peacemaking efforts on the part of religious leaders in Israel.
I brought a group
