Needed: A New Jewish Civics Course

By Gil Troy, The New York Jewish Week, 1-11-11 If 2000-2010 was the decade of delegitimization, when Palestinian attacks on Israel’s existence gained renewed traction, 2010 was the year of delegitimization-lite. More and more Jews responded to the relentless criticism of Israel by internalizing it. True, most rejected the radical caricature of Israel as a [...]

How Liberalism, Zionism Reinforce Each Other

By Gil Troy, The NY Jewish Week, 7-6-10 The increasingly popular claim that Zionism and liberalism are incompatible misreads contemporary Israeli politics, modern Zionism and liberalism itself. Zionism, like Americanism, is a form of liberal nationalism, one of the world’s most constructive, successful ideologies. Liberalism and Zionism remain not just compatible but mutually reinforcing. Like [...]

Understanding Obama As Our First PC President

By Gil Troy, New York Jewish Week, 4-27-10 Three mysteries underlie the current crisis between America and Israel. The first one is biographical: How can President Barack Obama call himself Israel’s friend, yet display such animus toward the Jewish state, exemplified most recently by refusing even to be photographed with Israel’s Prime Minister when hosting [...]

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