She Can't Help It

If you read Michelle Goldberg’s book on Christian nationalism you’ll understand why she thinks this way, her persecution fantasy is more important than real persecution pic.twitter.com/i5FYnK8osw

— Arthur Bloom 🇺🇸 (@j_arthur_bloom) May 25, 2021

No Yang, Just Yin

He’s too weak to lead New York. https://t.co/z6CKOodmZr

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) May 14, 2021

Yeah, the Manchurian Candidate Will Be Tough on Israel

The country isn't 73% Jewish? https://t.co/M1qgsGpNUc

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 10, 2021

"Definitely Cringe"

At Christmas they bomb Syria, they bomb Gaza. Now they mock humanity with a tweet like this. https://t.co/BqnZPI6718

— Tim Hayward (@Tim_Hayward_) December 26, 2020

Meanwhile...

https://t.co/jibPZEA8KA

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) December 29, 2020

"Anti-Semitism"

The IHRA guidelines make it perfectly clear that it is fine to criticise Israel as one would any other state, but not insofar as it perceived as a Jewish collectivity. In view of centuries of persecution of Jews, denial they need a homeland for security is surely anti Semitic. https://t.co/UA7KtFSJD2

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 24, 2020

Martin Buber

Martin Buber's unique vision of a cultural Zionism and an I-Thou Judaism was sparked by the man who declaimed "God is dead." https://t.co/DzAFAFTnW6 @RealClearBooks

— Modern Age (@ModAgeJournal) September 16, 2020

Modern Age

Others Call the Blob the "Anglo-Zionist Empire"

Samuel Huntington might have been right all along to cast doubt on the long-term salience of using ideology and doctrinal universalism as the dividing principle for international relations. https://t.co/OC9l9VMYKx

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) September 9, 2020

One for Israel

Messianic Jewish ministry. What sort of ecclesiology do they espouse? This is their statement of faith, which doesn't have much; no references to the Council of Nicaea. Does this ministry have any associations with any of the Protestant denominations?

EMJ and Andrew Meyer

My recent discussion with @TheAndrewMeyer is now available on my YouTube and @bitchute channels:https://t.co/Hm4ZAno6Iv

— E. Michael Jones (@EMichaelJones1) June 16, 2020

Bitchute alternative

Related:
Anderw Meyer and Owen Benjamin

No Preferential Treatment in This Way

This should not be U.S. policy toward any country: "[Biden] would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions that it makes. Period. Full stop." https://t.co/e8n4Lp3mem

— Stephen Wertheim (@stephenwertheim) May 19, 2020

Kant's Categorical Imperative Is Irrelevant

The ADL is against replacement migration.. But only in Israel. pic.twitter.com/4DNJ62srpH

— Arminius (@ArminiusThe) February 16, 2020

False Dichotomy

Globalism vs Nationalism. I recommend @yhazony’s book The Virtue of Nationalism: “national identity is based not on race or biological homogeneity, but on "bonds of mutual loyalty" to a shared culture and a shared history that bind diverse groups into a national unit.” https://t.co/VLuO7nM3DX

— Scott Goodspeed 🇺🇸 (@scottgoodspeed) April 26, 2020

What Form of Nationalism Permissible for All?

Listen to the incomparable @GadiTaub1 on "America First,"
nationalism, and globalism. This is an excerpt from an hour-long interview on YouTube: https://t.co/WoSgl8llXh. If you like what you hear, please subscribe to my YouTube channel. pic.twitter.com/b64HDWJwoQ

— Mike (@Doranimated) April 20, 2020

The full interview, with timestamp:





Frontline: India-Israel partnership finds an ideological link by Anupama Katakam

The Purpose of This Article on Breitbart?

I've written a post on Esther/Mordecai to look back at the week of Purim, drawing from recent books by @mikeeisenberg and @bethelseminary's John Anthony Dunne. Are we incorrectly reading piety into the story? https://t.co/BL0yd5Urbi

— Ezra Dulis (@ezradulis) March 16, 2020

Neuhaus's Legacy at First Things

Did he ever use the term "Judeo-Christian"? It shouldn't be surprising if he did.

First Things: Israel’s Political Mythology by Ari Lamm

Paul Gottfried on the National Conservatism Conference

Hazony Baloney

Hrm.

Why is this Seder different from all other Seders? by Ira Glunts (also posted at Dissident Voice)

How old are these texts for the Seder meal to which the author refers in his article? And what sort of Pharisee is he, orthodox, conservative, or reform?

Counterpunch:

Michael W. Hudson, The Borrower and the Billionaire

Paul Craig Roberts, What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us

Franklin C. Spinney, Staying the Course in Afghanistan

Uri Avnery, The Original Sin of the Israeli State

Mike Whitney, If the US Wants Peace in North Korea, It Should Keep Its Word

Russell Mokhiber, Obama's Kleptocracy Initiative: What About Wall Street?

The Invention of the Jewish People
By HARRY CLARK

Zenit: Papal Address at Synagogue of Rome

Sandro Magister, In the Synagogue of Rome, the Pope Rereads the "Ten Words"

ANNA FOA AND THE "ORIGINAL SIN" OF ISRAEL


In the article, Anna Foa endorses the ideas of one of the leading scholars of Zionism, Georges Bensoussan. In the opinion of both, the state of Israel was not born as"redemption" from the extermination of the Jews carried out by Hitler. The real force behind the state was Zionism, already during the British mandate, with the settlement of that land by Jews who wanted to create a new man. The idea of the Holocaust as the foundation of the state of Israel gained strength only much later, after the Eichmann trial and especially after the war of Yom Kippur, in recent decades. And what paved the way for it – Anna Foa writes – was precisely the fifteen years of postwar silence: a silence "inhabited by repressed memories, by new fears identified with the ancient fears that had come true in the Holocaust, by the sense of guilt and the desire for revenge."

Interpreted this way, the birth of the state of Israel is no longer that "original sin" which even today many of its friends and enemies ascribe to it. The latter of these include many Catholics, first among them the Arabs living in the region. The most authoritative of these, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, was also in the synagogue of Rome yesterday, at the pope's arrival.

According to this "vulgate," the state of Israel was created by the great powers in order to remedy the previous extermination in Europe of six million Jews, which meant that one injustice was compensated by committing another against the local Arab population. In 1964, when Paul VI went to the Holy Land, the Church of Rome had not yet accepted the existence of the new state. And when three decades later, in 1993, the Holy See finally recognized the state of Israel and established diplomatic relations with it, the Arab Christians took this act as a betrayal.

But on the part of John Paul II, and now of Benedict XVI, the recognition of Israel no longer has any reservation.

While, on the other hand, the incessant use of the memory of the Holocaust as a weapon of accusation against the Church of Pius XII and of his successors prevents Judaism from leaving behind its identity as a victim.

This is how Anna Foa concludes her article in "L'Osservatore Romano." By taking the Holocaust, instead of Zionism, as the foundation of its political and religious identity, Israel risks "clinging to catastrophe instead of hope in the future"; it closes itself off in "a sorrowful identity that always oscillates between Auschwitz and Jerusalem."

While Zionism may be more "positive" and "hopeful," how can it be the the foundation of Israel's political and religious identity if it was not legitimate to begin with, sanctioned by God?