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Being Patriotic in Israel
 
 

In the Path of the Founding fathers?

29 - Jul - 2007 - By: Israel Harel

Given the devaluation of the Zionist identity in recent years, the persistence for defining Israel as "the home of the Jewish people, its historic bastion, the homeland of our people" is not to be taken for granted. However, without it, Israel will not be able to survive for very long as a Jewish state, as it was envisioned by the founding fathers from the labor movement. [Full article]

 

Acceptance at any price?
 
 

Europe's "Good Jews"

19 - Nov - 2006 - By: Emanuele Ottolenghi

On the continent, the morally correct way to show concern for the Jewish state is to defame it. [Full article]

 

Post-Zionism
 
 

The End of Zionism

7 - Dec - 2003 - By: Yoram Hazony

The ideology that built the State of Israel has given way to a Post-Zionism that sanctifies Jewish disempowerment. [Full article]

 

Post Modernism
 
 

Is Post-Zionism Postmodern?

5 - Nov - 2003 - By: Mark Levine

Given the recent ubiquity of the "postmodern" as the preferred mode of criticism and analysis both in and outside of academia, the question whether "post-Zionism" falls within this larger discourse would seem to be perfectly legitimate. [Full article]

 

Response to Rotbart and Schvindlerman
 
 

Globalisation and Israeli Society

15 - Aug - 2001 - By: Nik John

Our Zionism Vs Post-Zionism debate rumbles on, with an article by Nik John responding to Sergio Rotbart and Julian Schvindlerman. Which side of the debate are you on? [Full article]

 

Doctrine and Impact of the New History
 
 

The Politicizing Of History

30 - Apr - 2001 - By: Julian Schvindlerman

The new Israeli historiography, which consists in overturning the basic principles of Zionism, is harshly attacked in this article. The old truths, the author claims, have been replaced by new lies, and the implications for Israeli society are indeed ominous: it is in the field of education that the destiny of the country will be decided-we will either collapse under the weight of our own guilty consciences….or perhaps, we just might gather enough strength to survive. [Full article]

 

52nd Anniversary of the Creation of the Jewish State
 
 

Who Is Afraid Of The Post Zionists?

30 - Apr - 2001 - By: Sergio Rotbart

For the author of this piece, post-Zionism represents a positive challenge to the officially sanctioned vision of history in Israel. For all of its structural defects, it has nonetheless called into question, for the first time, the heavily mystical, monolithic, and idealized vision of Jewish history. This is the record of a polemical debate. [Full article]

 

The Late, Great Professor Leibovitz
 
 

Letting Leibovitz Speak for Himself

11 - Oct - 2000 - By: Egon Friedler

Professor Yeshayahu Leibovitz was one of the most controversial figures whom I interviewed in my nearly three decades of journalism. And he literally victimized me; it was as though we were acting the sado-masochistic roles of professor and student in Ionesco’s play "The Lesson".Leibovitz answered me well enough, but he did so in explosive tones. He pontificated rather than lectured; envisioned rather than conversed; and he broke all the polite bounds of academic courtesy. And at the slightest hint of disagreement, his intellectual airs made it clear that I was an imbecile…any other explanation for not parroting his opinion was impossible.But truth be told, this most implacable of all of the critics of the Israeli establishment (including several confrontations with Ben-Gurion), played his role to the hilt. Biochemist and philosopher, born in Riga and educated in Germany, arriving in Israel in 1934, deeply Orthodox and radically left-wing, is considered by many in Israel to have been a true genius. Reader, be warned: he spares no one…….. [Full article]

 

Debate within the Jewish state: dialogue or clash?
 
 

Zionism and Post-Zionism: Radicals and Moderates

1 - Jul - 2000 - By: Dave Mendelson

Is it possible to look at the ideological divisions in Israeli society from an objective standpoint, without always becoming bogged down in emotionally charged arguments which lead to overwrought charges of "betrayal" or "blind support" of the Zionist challenge? Dave Mendelsson takes up the challenge in this penetrating article, which attempts to look at the phenomenon of post-Zionism against the wider backdrop of intellectual developments within the Jewish state. [Full article]

 

Zionist Thought
 
 

The Post Zionist Movement: Origins and Character

1 - Jan - 1998 - By: Eliezer Schweid

For a long time now, many elite academic and intellectual circles have been preaching the advent of the post-Zionist era. Though it be only a small minority, the rest of the nation is at yet at a loss with regards to this phenomenon. For some, post-Zionism is nothing less than the unraveling of the Zionist State and its inherently Jewish nature; for others it is simply an updating of Zionism, more in keeping with the new millenium, and for others it is merely a passing phase. Be that as it may, the existence of the post-Zionist trend as such is a warning sign, reminding us that the mere physical concentration of the Jewish people within their demographic borders in no way guarantees the Judeo-Zionist essence of the state. What, then, are the implications for Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora? [Full article]

 

 
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