Zeev Maghen

Fighting Words: Politically Incorrect Essays on Israel, Zionism, Judaism and Some Other Stuff

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Nov 15, 2022, 12:30 PM

The Word That Makes You Stupid

The Endlessly Employed Term that Deadens the Intellect and Renders Dialogue Impossible

Nov 14, 2022, 5:34 PM

Manifesto of the Struggle for Israeli Linguistic and Cultural Independence Buy a plane ticket to Israel, fly for five or eleven or sixteen or however many hours, disembark, go through passport control, exit the airport – and discover that you...

Nov 14, 2022, 10:44 AM

Jewish Unity in three easy steps I am grateful for the myriad responses I received to my previous blog post: for the praise, obviously, but even more so for the criticism – because it really made me think – and...

Oct 10, 2022, 11:14 PM

Let’s get physical

Or why Jews should stop 'condemning violence in all its forms' (and start buffing up)

Oct 9, 2022, 12:19 PM

The Climate Crisis, Post-Trauma and Post-Zionism

How a Culture of Anxiety is Undermining our Raison d'Etre

Oct 8, 2022, 12:22 PM

People of the Book?

What's Wrong with Israeli Education, and How We can Fix It

Sep 16, 2022, 10:21 AM

In favor of intermarriage

(It’s the only way we will ever rid ourselves of the Jewish left.) Here, verbatim, is an admonition regularly issued to my brother and me as we were growing up by my hippie, commie, veggie mom: “If you vote Republican,...

Sep 3, 2020, 8:03 PM

Israeli students during a lecture in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem " Har Hatsofim" or " Mount Scopus " on the first day of the academic year, November 02, 2008. Photo by Michal Fattal/Flash90.

Israel has forfeited Judaism's greatest strategic legacy, the burning passion for open, intellectual inquiry

Jul 3, 2017, 3:44 PM

By sacrificing hundreds of Israeli lives we can force the Orthodox obscurants to see the light…

Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)

A response to Daniel Gordis’s suggestion US Jews halt donations to counter ultra-Orthodox influence

Sep 24, 2015, 2:21 PM

How to Fight Anti-Semitism on Campus: A Shocking New Method

A Shocking New Method We all know that Jewish life on many North American and European college campuses today has become a living hell: Jewish students are lambasted on all sides for affiliating proudly with the Jewish people and with...

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About Me

Ze’ev Maghen is the author of John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage (Toby Press, 2015). He is professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic History and Chairman of the Department of Middle East Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Maghen also serves as senior fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem and at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.