December 10, 2012
5:37 pm

In Defense of Liberal Zionism

Noam Sheizaf has responded to Leon Wieseltier’s confession that he’s lost hope the two state solution is achievable within his lifetime. Sheizaf argues that when......

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November 23, 2012
11:15 pm

Israel as a Real Country

Rosa Brooks claims in her latest Foreign Policy piece that she’s thankful “America didn’t turn out like Israel.” I must admit I fail to see the purpose......

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October 9, 2012
4:14 pm

Anti-Semitism, ghost stories, and advocacy on Israel/Palestine

For a long time, each side of the Israel/Palestine divide has been telling ghost stories about the other side — tales of fear and threat as admonitions of what......

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July 26, 2012
8:53 pm

Daniel Gordis suddenly gets it?

Daniel Gordis has just come out with a new piece in Tablet Magazine, wondering about the manner in which Jews talk to each other when they disagree......

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June 21, 2012
7:01 pm

Presidential Conference Takeaway: Peter Beinart Isn’t Evil

In January I argued that the dialogue on Israel wasn't actually a dialogue, but rather just old-fashioned name-calling. Nowhere is this more evident than in the reaction to......

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May 16, 2012
3:51 pm

Jewishness as Ethnicity not Religion

Yesterday the tangled issue of Israeli citizenship and what it means to be a Jew hit the news again. A district court in Haifa ruled that a......

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May 4, 2012
12:37 am

Detaching Exile from Zionism

What do David Ben-Gurion, Ariel Sharon, and A.B. Yehoshua all have in common? All believe(d) that Jews would always be in danger (physically and spiritually) so long as they......

April 22, 2012
8:43 pm

Alternate Parameters for Discussing Zionism

There are different ways to discuss Zionism, and in this context I think we should applaud the new blog, Open Zion, for representing one effort to have......

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March 19, 2012
3:42 pm

Reinvigorate the World Zionist Congress

There are similarities and differences between the state of Zionism today and the way it was in the first decades of its existence. But the underlying feature in both......

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Brent Sasley

Brent Sasley is Assistant Professor in Political Science, at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches Israel and Middle East politics, and works on the politics of Jewish identity