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6 months ago

A look back at the start of the Zionist movement and its founder

NPR

A look back at the start of the Zionist movement and its founder NPR's history podcast, Throughline, goes back to the late 19th century to meet the people who organized the modern Zionist movement. And today, NPR's history podcast Throughline takes us back to the late 19th century to meet the father of the modern Zionist movement. ARABLOUEI: In Europe, …

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7 months ago

Is Zionism patriotism or racism? Big disagreements over a word in use for 125 years

LA Times

In the many debates over language surrounding the war in Gaza, few words are as controversial as “Zionism.” Its original, most basic definition is Jewish nationalism. The Anti-Defamation League defines the concept this way: “Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel. At hundreds of pro-Palestinian protests …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Three Synagogues, Museum In New York Receive Fake Bomb Threats

News 18

At least three synagogues and a museum in New York received bomb threats on Saturday but the New York Police Department did not deem them as credible, news agency Reuters said, citing a city official and police. A police spokesperson said a number of threats were received on Saturday, including an emailed bomb threat to the Brooklyn Museum and one …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Some German Jews say their country goes too far defending Israel

Live Mint

What do an Indian poet, an Australian political scientist, an Irish folk troupe, a British architect, a Bangladeshi photographer, an American historian of the Holocaust, a Chilean composer, an Israeli-Austrian playwright, a Dutch footballer, a German-Nigerian journalist, a Palestinian novelist, a South African artist and Bernie Sanders, the American senator, have in common? This evolution started decades ago, with Germany’s …

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1 year ago

Israel war in Gaza: Hanukkah and the Maccabees have had Jews arguing about military force for centuries.

Slate

Many Jews this year are struggling with how to celebrate Chanukah—whether because our joy has been tempered by the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, the continued plight of Israeli hostages in Gaza, and the massive death toll among civilians in Gaza, or out of fears of antisemitism. Later, the early Zionists reclaimed the Maccabees as exemplars of Jewish political …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Israel seeks 'a new reality' with terrorism eradicated as Netanyahu condemns 'savagery not seen since the Holocaust' - but EU accuses Jewish state of breaking international laws by cutting off food an

Daily Mail

But EU said the blockade and bombardment of Gaza breaks international law Israeli officials have declared they are seeking a 'new reality' that will see Hamas eradicated as the Israeli Defence Forces gear up to launch a massive military operation in Gaza. A Palestinian works to remove a casualty from the rubble of a house hit in Israeli strikes, in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Antisemitic flyers could spur action on proposed Georgia law

Associated Press

ATLANTA — A continuing wave of antisemitic flyers hit parts of suburban Atlanta, including the home of Georgia’s only Jewish state legislator. She’s a co-sponsor of a House Bill 30, which would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “working definition of anti-Semitism” as Georgia law. This includes “targeting of the state of Israel,” although it also says that “criticism of …

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2 years ago

For many Australian Jews, the state of Israel is more divisive than Alex Ryvchin suggests

ABC

There is almost nothing as divisive within the Jewish community as one’s attitude towards the state of Israel. Alex Ryvchin of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry recently made the case that, despite all its flaws, Israel overwhelming holds the affection of Australian Jews, except for a disgruntled minority who have apparently thrown in their lot with all manner of …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Israeli Supreme Court upholds contentious Jewish state law