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The article discusses the American Council for Judaism, a group within the Reform movement advocating anti-Zionism. Steve Naman, its president, highlights the organization's historical stance against Jewish nationalism, suggesting it foresaw the tragic outcomes of recent conflicts in Israel and Palestine.

The article discusses the emergence of Zionism, the Jewish nationalist movement, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It highlights the context of Jewish life in Europe, the impact of the French Revolution and Jewish emancipation, and the rise of nationalism as factors that influenced the development of Zionism. It also mentions the rise of nationalism in Europe presented a challenge, as Jews were often excluded from national identities which led to the emergence of Zionism.

The article focuses on the mainstream American Jewish institutions' condemnation of pro-Palestinian protests on campuses, supporting Israel and labeling critics as antisemitic. It discusses historical ambivalence among American Jewish leaders toward Zionism until the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and examines how dissent on Israel has been increasingly silenced.

The article explores Franz Kafka's complex life and work, revealing him as a writer who championed defeat and struggled to define himself. The article delves into Kafka's personal struggles, his fascination with theology and Jewish identity, and the intricate connections between his diaries and his unique literary creations.

The article provides personal reflections on Expo 88 and explores the author's connection to their grandparents' experiences during the event. It also delves into the complexities of Jewish bodies and the influence of Zionism on shaping Jewish identities. The author contemplates the role of romance, sex, and intimate relationships in their grandparents' lives and reflects on the expectations and pressures placed on Jewish bodies within Zionist ideology.

The article discusses Nakba narrative which undermines the possibility of reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians . It mentions denial of the legitimacy of Jewish history with the Oslo Accords of 1993 that created the Palestinian Authority (PA) and gave it the power to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It reports how it allowed the Palestinians to build their own national institutions, including schools, universities and museums.

The article discusses the origin and ideology of Zionism. Topics discussed include the relation between Zionism and the Jewish religion of Judaism, political and religious Zionism, the tenets of Zionism ideology, discussion of Zionist ideas in the founding document of the U.S. Jewish Reform movement, the formation of Jewish settlers in Palestine into a Hebrew settler country and the inception of Zionist colonization based on philosopher, Karl Marx's model of colonialism.

Offers a look at anti-Semitism in Europe. Claim that anti-Semitism in Europe is tied to local circumstances and political developments in Europe and elsewhere; Statement that anti-Jewish incidents in France or Belgium can be attributed to young people of Muslim or Arab background; Suggestion that anti-Semitism in 2004 is not the same as the anti-Semitism of the 1930s; Discussion of the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States; Report that young people in Europe are less tolerant of prejudice than their parents were; Link between hostility to Jews and events in the Middle East; Discussion of the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism; Report that Europeans and Americans view the conflict between Israel and Palestine in different ways; Reference to an essay by Omer Bartov regarding contemporary anti-Semitism; Statement that the policies of Israeli governments have provoked anti-Jewish feelings in Europe; Connection between United States foreign policy and Israel.

Focuses on anti-semitism and the outlook for relations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. The history of anti-Semitism, the new anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism; Idea that Zionism is seen as an aggressive form of colonialism in the Arab world; History of Palestinian relations with Israel; Distortions that characterize the political dealings between Israel and Palestinians; Opinion that the violence is caused by a hatred of the Jews and their connection to the land of Israel. INSET: 50 YEARS OF TROUBLE.

Discusses the efforts of Jews throughout the world to establish a sense of identity. Concerns of Jews regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in the Arab world; Discussion of the atrocities that the Palestinians have committed against the Israelis; Problem with typological thinking about history; Fright of American Jewry; Possibility of ethnic panic in the U.S.

The article discusses issues related to fighting anti-Semitism and embracing Zionism. Topics discussed include pro-Israel policies of Austria's chancellor Sebastian Kurz providing political dividends to the nation, threat faced by European civilization, importance of Jewish nationalism, Nazis' quest for genocide of the Jewish people and issues related to Euro-Israel relations.

The article focuses on link between the Holocaust and the Nakba is probably the most charged for both Jews and Palestinians based on book "The Holocaust and Nakba: Memory, National Identity and Jewish-Arab Partnership," edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. It mentions potential for radical violence found in ethnic nationalism and in the modem nation-state and object of discrimination, and frequently suffered expulsion or murder. It also mentions Jewish nationalism in Palestine.

Presents the views of several personalities on the 100th anniversary of Zionism in 1997. Daniel Bell; Leon Botstein; Arthur Hertzberg; Michael Ignatieff; Tony Judt.

Describes the efforts of Theodor Herzl in founding a Jewish homeland in Palestine. History of the Zionist movement; Highlights of the First Zionist Congress; Overview of his book "The Jewish State"; Obstacles to Zionism; Clashes between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs; Examination of Zionism as an ideology; Link between the Jewish Holocaust and the founding of Israel; Advantages brought about by Zionism.

In this article, comments of five longtime observers from the U.S. Jewish community is presented on the relationship between the American Jews and Israel. First comment is by the Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College. According to him, gender and theology are the two symbol systems that configure the relationship between the State of Israel and American Jews. Zionism meant transcending effeminacy, re-creating the Jew as man. If Zionism was about Jewish masculinity, then the establishment of the State of Israel inaugurated a marriage between Israel and American Jewry. Another commentator is the visiting Professor of Humanities, New York University. He comments that the Jews of Israel and the United States have been "married" for fifty years, and they can no longer cover up their disenchantments with each other.

Describes the tension between individualism and group conformity in Israel as October 11, 1994. Impact on Israeli children of the ritual class trips and military service; Ideological battle emerging among Jews about Zionism; Discussion on the emergence of civil rights movement for homosexuals; Influence of the military on the political and social life of Israelis; Debates among historians about the moral rectitude the Zionist cause.

Presents information on a resolution related to Zionism which is adopted in the 30th United Nations (UN) General Assembly. View that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination; Views of U.S. Ambassador, Daniel Moynihan on the resolution; Rumors that Congress may cut the appropriations necessary for the survival of the U.N.; Views of Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, on the resolution; Impact of the resolution on the delicate process of international cooperation; Need for the reconstruction of world economic order; Deliberation on issues related to the demand of expelling Israel from the U.N.

The Arab strike, which lasted six months, is over; violence, too, has temporarily subsided. The 30,000 soldiers whom Great Britain has dextrously slipped into Palestine will maintain order as a side duty, until something happens. A leading Arab said to the author that either a European war will break out in a year or two or it will not. If war comes, people shall have their chance because England will not be able to keep so many soldiers here. A Royal Commission will soon arrive to investigate the last outbreak and suggest a solution that will prevent bloodshed in the future. But Palestine has had commissions in the past. They have issued voluminous reports but they have not brought peace. Neither Arabs or Zionists are optimistic about the results of the new commission. British commissions are designed to safeguard British interests, not to help the country.

The article discusses Zionism. It was to supply the elementary need of a homeless people for a home that the Balfour Declaration was issued on November 2, 1917, announcing that "His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national borne for the Jewish people." The purpose of this historic document, which was subsequently approved by fifty-two nations, including the United States, was understood and accepted by the parties most directly involved. Since 1918, more than half a million Jews have been settled in Palestine.

Israel is rediscovering itself. Zionism and Israeli nationalism are no longer the two sides of the same lollipop. Zionism stood as the link between the aim of a Jewish homeland and the presence of Jewish communities throughout the world. With the achievement of that homeland and its subsequent prospering, an Israeli nationalism now emerges that has Zionism as only one of its elements. This in turn is bound to affect profoundly the relation of Israel to Israelis and to Jews and to Jewish communities elsewhere.

The article focuses on the author's specific and factual identification with the Jewish people of Israel, emphasizing a shared civilization rather than emotional bonds. Topics discussed include the existential threat faced by the Jewish nation, the author's rejection of universalist notions, and the historical perspective of overcoming adversities as a united people.

The article focuses on issues and trends regarding the passage of the Israeli anti-democratic legislative. Topics being presented include information about the Nation-State Law, which signifies a turning point in Palestinian-Israeli relations as well as Israel's move to sprout racist laws and the constant rise of racism aims to delegitimize the rights of the Palestinian-Arab national minority in Israel.

An interview with artist Beverly Barkat is presented. Topics include dealing with her husband Nir Barkat, who is also outgoing mayor of Jerusalem; her solo exhibition at the 16th-century Palazzo Grimani, Italy during the 2018 Venice Biennale; and her art work that reflects future of Israel along side Jewish nation and its religious aspect.

The article discusses how the President Donald J. Trump's act of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel reversed long-standing U.S. policy on this all-important core issue, but he also sent shockwaves throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds. It reports that for Palestinians, Trump declaration may provide opportunities for diplomatic achievements with states that are troubled with the U.S. role.

The article offers information about American Zionism, that was for most Jews, was the dream of only a very few before World War I. Topics discussed include that the American Zionist movement by 1910 could claim less than 10,000 members out of 2,000,000 American Jews; ways in which Zionist Jewish membership rose to over two hundred thousand in the next two decades; and ways in which Israel helps American Jews shift from Anatevka to Jerusalem.

The author discusses his views on anti-Semitism as an Israeli Jew in voluntary political exile. He mentions his desire to end all forms of oppression and separation through understanding the nature of anti-Semitism, his grief on Jewish uprootedness and suffering which regards to the existence of the Jewish people, and his perception on Zionism as the attempt of the Jews to address to anti-Semitism.

The article presents a speech by the author, professor of history and director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter in Great Britain, delivered at the "The Isreal Lobby and American Policy" conference. Topics discussed by him includes understanding of the nature of Zionism and the Zionist project in Palestine, decolonization in the 21st century and issues related to colonialist movement.

The article focuses on Jewish expressions of anti-Zionism which are not motivated by anti-Semitism and the unilateral rejection of Jewish nationalism alone among the nationalisms of the world. Topics discussed include presentation of Zionism as a form of European colonialism without any understanding or recognition, controversial incidents and statements involving figures in the British Labour Party and Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the British Mandate from 1920-1948.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the previous issues. "House of Esau," which focused on Jewish nationalism; "A Study in Justice," which presents severe criticisms of the U.S. Department of Justice in its investigation of charges against Captain Robert Rosenbluth; "Russian Trade With U.S. Falls Off," which made anti-Soviet propaganda.

The world's sympathy goes out to the Jews in the frontier communities of Palestine, crouching in terror before the threat of utter destruction at the hands of tribesmen armed with modern guns but inspired by passions of medieval cruelty. It is easy enough, thousands of miles away, to pick out mistakes in British administration and in Zionist policy; but to the men and women in the little Jewish settlements the immediate question is one of life and death. Fascism in Austria may seem a small affair in comparison with fascism in Italy, but the possibility at the moment of a fascist rising in Austria, with consequences not limited to that country alone, cannot be dismissed as without foundation.

Each morning paper is the lurid reflection of fiery facts and forces which have set the world aflame during the centuries, and which are now blazing with redoubled fierceness. Each new hour seems an epitome of all that men have ever wrought and wrecked. All the influences that have gone to the making or the marring of the body politic, individualism, nationalism, internationalism, strut together upon the stage of the moment, so full of sound and fury that one is deafened by the clamor. All the medieval manifestations of savagery, invasions of Huns, descents of "blonde beasts" upon defenceless towns and coasts, slaughters of Christians by Turks, massacres of Jews by Christians, confronts all in daily columns. When writer George Eliot championed in the book "Daniel Deronda," Jewish hopes of Zion, seemingly shadowy then, but close to gleaming realization in these contemporary days, which see all dreams both good and bad come true. George Eliot's creation, Mordecai, who tottered upon the scene in "Daniel Deronda" a full score of years before the first gathering of Zionists at Basle, had little honor in his brief hour. A consumptive Jewish workman in threadbare apparel, he seems, with his choking cough, his yellow face, his skeleton hands, to invite from all men pitying regard rather than reverent attention.

The author discusses the Jewish national movement and the Palestinian national movement under the umbrella of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), focusing on nationalism and theism. He explores the arguments between the two rival in their international advocacy, highlighting the role of religion in the discourse to legitimize their claims, the rise of the Gush Emunim and Hamas, and the theory of professor Michael Walzer about the rise of religion in young democracy.

In this article the author talks about the necessity of Zionism, a nationalist and movement of Jews to support establishment of a Jewish culture, in Paris, France. Topics include murder of a 23-year-old Jews IIan Halimi in France in January 2006; increase in number of Muslim attacks on French Jews during and after Israel's war with Islamism organization Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyah in Gaza in 2014; and inability of French politicians to stop attacks on French Jewry by radical Islamists.

The article focuses on the concept of Zionism in Pakistan. It discusses various protocols of the Elders of Zion. As mentioned, these protocols aims at describing a Jewish plan for global domination. These protocols are related to the editorial committee of the laws and decrees of the ruler, word freedom and exiled societies of Europe.

The article discusses the shared discouragement of Israelis brought on by Israel's situation in the world and the intentions of the Palestinians. The author explains how the failure of U.S. administrations to broker a successful Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty has only frustrated Israelis further. The accomplishments of Israelis in Jerusalem are detailed. The author suggests ways a successful Israeli-Palestinian peace can be achieved. Palestinian violence against Israelis is addressed.

The article examines the rise of the criticism of Zionism in the context of the shift in Jewish culture and thinking around identity. An evidence of the growing Jewish criticism of Zionism is the blockade of the Israeli consulates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California launched by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network following the Israeli attacks on Gaza. It discusses how the Palestine solidarity movement has been pushed toward a structural analysis centered on Zionism. It relates the role of the feminist and queer movements in the rise in Jewish critiques of Zionism.

The author discusses the demographic evolution of Europe's rising Muslim population, arguing that the Islamic influence on European politics and society will have a negative effect on Europe-Israel foreign relations. The author suggests that the rising Muslim population is causing European diplomacy and social policy to go in an anti-Semitic direction.

The author discusses the implications of foreign diplomatic policy regarding Jewish nationalism and the existence of Israel, arguing that negative opinions regarding the right of Israel to exist are not an existential threat. Subjects under discussion include the impotent policies of the United Nations (UN), the political relations between the U.S. and Israel, and Israel's estrangement from the European Union (EU).

The author discusses U.S. president Barack Obama's policies regarding Israel and their implication upon Israel's national existence. The author explores whether the traditional American policy regarding Israel will be threatened by the Obama administration's emphasis on diplomacy over national security. Obama's approach to nuclear proliferation and Iran's nationalism is discussed.

An essay is presented discussing the fading interest in Zionist causes among North American Jews. It discusses the author's youth in Canada where she was taught Zionist values by way of comparison to views of Israel and Jewish nationalism in the early 21st century. Subjects under discussion include the effect of the Nazi Holocaust on Israeli independence movements, the relation of Palestine to Israel, and the policies of the United Nations (UN) towards Israel.

The article presents an examination of the early 20th century plan to give a portion of British East Africa to the Jewish people as a homeland. Known as the Uganda Scheme, the plan led to a split in the Zionist movement and the establishment of the Jewish Territorial Organization led by English Zionist Israel Zangwill. The article traces the history of the Uganda Scheme from the earliest stages of its inception, discusses the expedition into East Africa that was intended to survey the land and determine its suitability as a Jewish homeland and examines the report that was filed on the expedition's findings and the scheme's ultimate rejection by the Seventh Zionist Congress.

The author reflects on Jewish settlements in Israeli occupied territories. He discusses Gush Emunim, a militant settlers' organization, the settlements they and other Zionist groups established in the West Bank, and their conflict with Palestinians. The lack of a coherent settlement policy held by the Israeli government is also discussed. He presents information regarding successful settlements that have benefited Israel and discusses missed opportunities for settlement in the Jordan Valley.

This article discusses the future of Israel and its meaning for Jewish identity. The author mentions the military threat to Israel from its Muslim neighbors, as well as the possibility of demographic obliteration through high Arab-Israeli birth rates. Most of all, he discusses the effect of the low rates of immigration of American Jews to Israel, as well as the number of Israeli Jews moving to America, and what that means for Judaism and Jews' place in the world.

The article focuses on the significant role of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the Zionist Movement. The Jews viewed the idea of redeeming the land under public ownership rather than relying on the egotism of private property as a liberal and universal ideal. There has been no lack of unfavorable evaluations of the JNF records. The author highlights the historical development of the JNF and its role in the Jewish land development.

The article explores the moral and political aspects of the modern anti-Zionist movement. Leftists who have the anti-Zionist ideology claim for moral sublimity. Anti-Zionists claim for moral respectability upon the need for Israel's eradication. They attempt to delegitimize the cause of Jewish self-determination. Advocates of anti-Zionist ideology contend that anti-Zionism is different from the anti-Semitism doctrine.

Focuses on the concept of the modern Zionist movement. Opposition of religious Jews on any effort to establish a Jewish homeland; Comparison of the Jewish state to apartheid South Africa; Political and theological significance of Zionism.