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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Several letters are presented from readers responding to the article "The Romance of Birthright Israel" by Kiera Feldman, which appeared in the July 4, 2011 issue, along with a response letter from Feldman.

Presents a letter to the editor commenting the essay, "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism," by Brian Klug, which appeared in the February 2, 2004 issue of the magazine, and a reply to the letter by Klug.

The author, a former editor of "The Nation," pays tribute to contributor Edward Said, who died on September 25, 2003. We gave him cufflinks fashioned out of typewriter keys for his sixtieth birthday. I had selected the keys, an exclamation mark and a semicolon, and Alexander made the little speech that night explaining the choice. The exclamation mark--of course, the exclamation mark! Who knew Edward, who saw Edward for an hour, perhaps an instant, without recognizing the vivid force of the man? The semicolon is another story altogether. Curiosity of the punctuation world, neither showy nor strictly utilitarian, it is the symbol of unapparent linkages, the iconic gesture casting back at one thought while drawing it forward, finished yet unfinished, into the next. I remember sitting beside him one day, going over galleys of a piece he'd written on the second anniversary of the Oslo Accords. Everything had gone to hell, as he'd predicted on the day of the famous handshake. I never got the feeling Edward took pleasure in the accuracy of his predictions. For all his erudition, all the easy references to Adorno or Vico or ones more obscure, Edward did not write in the clogged, remote style of the academic. And for all his acquaintance with elites, he had an allergy to power. His objection to the war on Iraq sprang from the same source as his opposition to Zionism and his contempt for Arab despots, including Arafat. As the most prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause, as a Palestinian exile, he was in psychic proximity to one of the most excruciating instances of collective suffering in the postwar period. The best tribute that night of the sixtieth birthday was delivered by Edward's daughter, Najla.

The idea of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine extensive enough to solve the material problems of European Jewry or culturally rich enough to solve its psychological problems has long since proved to be utopian. With the publication of the new report of the British Royal Commission, Zionism after forty years' effort finds itself in extremis. During the World War England, through such agents Henry McMahon and Colonel T. E. Lawrence, promised to create an independent Arab kingdom under the Sharif of Mecca in return for Arab aid against the Turk.

Presents letters to the editor. Comment on a previously published article entitled "Why Arabs Kill Jews"; Discussion on the issue of settling the Arab revolt peacefully; Information on Zionism.

The article presents information on the book, "Zionism and World Politics," by Horace M. Kallen. The book is the definitive work on Zionism, but it is also much more. As its title inadequately suggests, the book is a study of the Jewish question in its universal setting and a disclosure of the relationship between the Jewish problem and international politics. And Kallen does not touch a subject without illuminating it, when Roman imperialism, or the San Remo Conference enter within the compass of his theme, they come defined and evaluated.

Presents letters to the editor about various political issues, published in the journal "The Nation." Praise of the journal on the publication of Reinhold Niebuhr's articles, "Jews After the War" in the February 21 and February 28, 1942 issues of the journal; Comment on an unbiased and correct appraisal of the Zionist movement by a Christian authority; Demand for settlement of Jews in Palestine.

By some mysterious operation of the public mind British sympathy with the Jewish experiment in Palestine has increased since officialdom pronounced adverse judgment upon it. There is now, after the appearance of the report of the Palestine Commission, a decidedly more favorable tone in the press, together with a profounder understanding of the Jewish cause, than there was immediately after the tragic events of last August. At that time the entire British press was either openly antagonistic or at best very lukewarm to the Jewish side of the question in Palestine.

In the long history of the Jews the supreme hero is Moses. Talk to the most cultivated and skeptical Jew of your acquaintance and if he is race-conscious he will thrill to that name. It is not to either of these chieftains that Theodore Herzl is to be compared-the prophet of Zionism in modern days. A complete, authoritative, and readable story of the prophet of modern Zionism comes at an opportune time, since one of the results of the war that can be put down as favorable is the Balfour resolution and the commitment of the British Empire to carry out, on its political side, the Zionist dream.

This article discusses the condemnation of the Israeli attack on the unarmed passengers of ships attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the citizens of Palestine by those who are strongly against to Israel's tactics with regard to Palestine. The article notes that a debate between Israel's supporters and Zionists who support Palestine points out what the two sides have in common. The article also discusses an article by writer Peter Beinart.

The article focuses on political condition of Israel. Beit Alfa is a unique and interesting kibbutz, founded by an international Jewish youth movement. Beit Alfa produces modern police anti-riot armored cars, which sell for 200,000 dollars. Beit Alfa is a short paragraph in the long history of Socialist Zionism. Another Israeli story is that of a young man named Moshe Amirav, who sought peace and ran afoul of the extreme right wing. Amirav's intention was to steal the peace flag from Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, a difficult task.

Presents letters to the editor about politics, published in the journal "The Nation." Cooperation of Henry A. Turner with the A.I.A; Gore Vidal's attack on rabid Zionism; Comment on the review of Virginia Foster Durr's autobiography "Outside the Magic Circle," by Wendy Gimbel in the article "Pride of Place," previously published in the journal.

On November 10,1975, in what the journal "The Nation," a few days later called "an odious expression of racism," the U.N. General Assembly voted to link Zionism with South African apartheid and condemn it as a form of racism. Now, after sixteen years, the United Nations has finally purged itself of this poison, perhaps it can begin to function in the Middle East as it should have all these years. But much worse was the conflation of nation with race, a conflation to which, again, only Jews were subjected. For if those Jews who have thought and acted as though they are a nation were not to be allowed to call themselves a nation and to behave like a nation but were instead to be considered a race, of which Zionism is the philosophy, then the U.N. was repeating the doctrine that lies at the root of the most hideous crime of this century.

The Jewish National Council of Palestine has issued a second manifesto to the Arabs, the text of which follows in its original translated form. To subjects of the dear and holy motherland, Palestine, and to all the Arabic nations in their respective countries. All the members of the Jewish nationality dwelling with Arabs in Palestine, come to Arabic brethren, with a message of peace and love, of unity and joint labors, to lay before Arabs the sincerity of Palestinian aims and the purity of their hopes. Arabs must know that Bible and the writings of the Prophets admonish Palestinians never to transgress the laws of justice and fairness.

For diplomatists and statesmen of England, it has not been the inspiration among the inheritors of the liberal traditions of England. For them Zionism is right in itself. They see 2,000 years of persecution and ostracism, 2,000 years of intolerance. State and church, their enemies too, have united in the age-long persecution of a race. They see Zionism not only as a city of refuge for the oppressed, but one which they and England have taken a share in building. It is a credit to them. It is their amende, a gesture in the face of the liberal nations of continental Europe.

This article focuses on the book "The Jews," by Hilaire Belloc. There is a Liberal fiction, says Mr. Belloc, that the Jew isn't a Jew. He counters with a pet fiction of his own, to wit, that the Jew is an alien who cannot even understand patriotism, who owes loyally to his Israel only, and ought by no means be allowed full citizenship on a par with his hosts. In Zionism, Mr. Belloc sees expropriation of landowners, ousting of the Arab to make place for the Jew, Jewish control of the Holy Places, a parasite colony, things no Jew ever dreamed of.

This article discusses the book "Not Peace But a Sword," by Vincent Sheean. Aside from a few minor shortcomings, the dismissal of Zionism in a few paragraphs seems flippant, the characterization of Benes is too harsh and surely wrong in so far as it does not take into account the reactionary influence of the greatest Czech party, the Agrarians-the book is an advance both in the observation and the general understanding of the contemporary scene. It should be read for its sheer information and for the problems and contradictions it presents, even though no convincing attempt is made to solve them.

This article presents information on various social issues concerning the U.S. Around City Hall in Jersey City, New Jersey the talk is that Republican Governor-Elect Walter Edge will appoint as Prosecutor of Hudson County. A Temple Congregation in Houston, Texas, recently passed a resolution barring from voting membership any Jew who practiced the dietary laws of orthodox Judaism, favored the perpetuation of Hebrew as a language, or belonged to any organization favoring Zionism. The newspaper Washington Times-Herald recently carried the names of seventy-four men who would shortly report for active duty in the armed forces.