Posts Tagged ‘Hannah Arendt’
Hiding Zionism’s Racism Behind an ‘Anti-Semitic’ Mask
A Response to Rabbi Elli Sarah Rabbi Elli Sara Rabbi Elli Sarah is a Liberal rabbi in Brighton and Hove. Liberal Judaism is supposed to be the most progressive form of Judaism, however Zionism has dragged it to the Right. Reform Judaism, of which Liberal Judaism is a variant, wished to update Judaism in the…
Read MoreApartheid in Israel – a creation of Labour Zionism not Likud
A demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah, Feb. 2011. Reuters A good article that appeared in Ha’aretz a few years ago on the development of Apartheid in Israel. I have only one disagreement. Apartheid didn’t start in 1967 with the conquest of the Territories (W Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights) but in 1948 with the expulsion of ¾…
Read MoreComparing Zionists or Israel to Nazis is Anti-Semitic – Isn’t It?
One of the main crimes that I am apparently accused of in my suspension from the Labour Party [I haven’t been informed of them by the Labour Party but by the Daily Telegraph and The Times] is that I compared Israel’s marriage laws to the Nazi Nuremberg Laws. The coin that the Nazis struck on…
Read MoreThe Israeli occupation is un-Jewish – Judith Butler
An article well worth reading from some who is called an ‘academic superstar’. A member of Jewish Voices for Peace and a supporter of BDS, Judith Butler argues from the basis that Zionism is inherently un-Jewish. I’m not sure I agree with her thesis, because Judaism historically has comprised many different, often antagonistic things from…
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