
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Still, I wish leftist activists more often acknowledged that there’s a tradition of cultural Zionism, championed in the mid-twentieth century by figures like Martin Buber and Judah Magnes, which wanted a thriving Jewish culture in Palestine-Israel but opposed a Jewish state. And I wish leftist activists had more empathy for the historical trauma th
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exclusionary and illiberal beliefs. One rarely hears of South Asian students barred from their campus environmental or LGBTQ group because they sympathize with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virulently anti-Muslim brand of Hindu nationalism. Treating Zionist students as pariahs is both unfair and counterproductive. The best way to convince Jewish s
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