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May 16, 2018, 11:10 AM
Liberal Zionism is dead
For as long as Liberal Zionism has existed, Jews have been writing op-eds declaring that it is dead. The truth is that the doctrine of Liberal Zionism has never been logically strong enough to withstand educated critique. As proponents of Liberal Zionism unearth the whole...
Mar 12, 2018, 6:13 PM
Yachad needs a new direction or it will be redundant
When Yachad was founded in 2011, they were trail-blazers in the world of Anglo-Jewry. From within the murmurings of discontent, Yachad were among the first Jews to criticise the State of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank while unapologetically remaining involved in Jewish organisations. They...
Jan 15, 2018, 1:25 PM
Deconstructing Orthodoxnormitivity
Orthodoxnormitivity is by no means a new phenomenon, but recently it is becoming recognised and called out as a major issue concerning progressive Jews in the UK. This is in no doubt largely due to matter being platformed (and indeed the term itself being coined)...
Jun 7, 2017, 4:30 PM
It’s time progressive Jews started talking about ‘the Nakba’
Over the past few years much progress has been made by groups such as Jewdas and Yachad in bringing the Israeli occupation of the West Bank to the forefront of our community’s relationship with the State of Israel. Within progressive Jewish communities, it has become...
Mar 10, 2017, 11:18 AM
Every Jew who quietly backs boycotts must speak out
I’m part of a generation of young Jews who have been on a journey of learning a more complete truth about Israel-Palestine’s past and present. Through visits to Israel-Palestine, conversations with Israelis and Palestinians and lots of reading, I became able to comfortably dismiss the...
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Joely is student organiser for Jewdents, a left-wing student group