By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 6 -28-10 Last week I was bicycling through Jerusalem’s picturesque German Colony. Suddenly, at one of those blind intersections where the picturesque building looms dangerously close to the picturesque curb, an SUV cut me off. I braked. The next thing I knew my face was bonded with the pavement on [...]
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All posts for the month June, 2010
Looking monstrous, feeling virtuous: How delegitimization distorts
Posted by giltroy on June 28, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/delegitimization-distorts/
Yes, You Can Be Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Zionist
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 6-21-10 Last week, I addressed hundreds of young Australians finishing their “shnat” year-in-Israel programs. A number asked me more or less the same critical question: How can we be pro-Zionist while being pro-Palestinian (and thus occasionally criticized for being anti-Zionist)? I glibly answered that today, with Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 21, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/pro-palestinian-pro-zionism/
“Ghost Zionism” Haunts the World
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 6-16-10 The 36th World Zionist Congress has been meeting in Jerusalem this week, but few people noticed. The Congress which once shaped Jewish history is a ghost of its former self. Zionism is in crisis, attacked internally and externally, by frustrated Jews, honest critics, and anti-Semites. The Zionist Congress itself [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 16, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/ghost-zionism-world-zionist-congress/
Steve Averbach z”l: Israel’s man of spiritual steel
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 6-10-10 The recent death of Steve Averbach, yet another victim of Palestinian terrorism, stirred memories of the bad old days of 2003, when suicide bombers regularly attacked. Averbach was paralyzed during a bus bombing in Jerusalem early Sunday morning May 18, 2003. The informal networks of love that helped him [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 10, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/steve-averbach/
The Left’s fiasco flotilla: Betraying Zionism and liberalism
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 6-7-10 Comments This month, in Jerusalem, Way Off Productions and AACI are premiering Arsenic, The Musical, an original musical based on Arsenic and Old Lace. In this charming, energetic production, the exceedingly normal star, Mortimer Brewster, suddenly realizes he is surrounded by homicidal lunatics – including his two doddering old [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 7, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/flotilla-zionism-liberalism/
