By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 3-30-11 In the current climate, the mainstream media qualifies any news that might make Israel look good with a “yes, but.” When the Syrian dictatorship teeters, the New York Times suggests that the Obama administration fears losing a “peace partner” in the repressive, obstructionist Bassar-al-Assad, while bashing Binyamin Netanyahu for showing “no [...]
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All posts for the month March, 2011
Favorite Zionists: Ruth Gavison: Reviving Liberal Zionism
GIL TROY’S FAVORITE ZIONISTS Gil Troy’s Favorite Zionists: Today’s Zionist Thinkers and Doers New series of essays on Zionist thinkers and doers, in Israel and outside, who are pioneering new understandings of what Jewish nationalism can mean in the 21st century. Ruth Gavison: Reviving Liberal Zionism By Gil Troy, The NY Jewish Week, March 22, 2011 Editor’s [...]
Posted by giltroy on March 25, 2011
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Gil Troy: Anti-Israeli campus activists are normalizing hate and death threats
By Gil Troy, National Post, 3-24-11 Reuters A twidiot’s weapon. “I want to shoot everyone in this room,” a McGill University student recently announced using his online Twitter feed, claiming he had surreptitiously “infiltrated” what was in fact an open film screening of Indoctrinate U, hosted by Conservative McGill and Libertarian McGill. “I should have [...]
Posted by giltroy on March 24, 2011
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Bold change is an opportunity
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 3-24-11 Question: “How many congregants does it take to change a light bulb in a synagogue?” The answer is: “Change? You vant we should change the light bulb? My grandmother donated that light bulb!”Change is never easy – personally or communally. Most of us like our lives, habits, institutions [...]
Posted by giltroy on March 24, 2011
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