zionism – Page 3 – The Revealer

Israel Studies, A Form of Public Diplomacy?

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Kali Handelman

“I know what the podium I stand behind represents, what Israel studies represents. I know this is a form of public diplomacy.” — Amal Jamal, “Israeli-Arab” professor of political science, Tel-Aviv University, one of two Palestinian scholars (of a total of 300 attendees) at the annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies in Toronto in early May.

This week The Forward, a Jewish daily newspaper, published an article by Gal Beckerman that examines the swift increase of Israel Studies programs on American university campuses — often funded by wealthy Israeli donors as a reaction to established “left-leaning” Middle Eastern Studies programs. Continue Reading →

Uncomfortable Zionism

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Kali Handelman

Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books last week, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” that, according to Religion Dispatches’ Sarah Posner, “has the potential to create an intellectual earthquake.” Beinart writes that American Jews have become increasingly divided between two distinct and un-nuanced positions: “naked hostility to Arabs and Palestinians”; and “a mass of secular American Jews who range from apathetic to appalled.” Continue Reading →

Unraveling the Israel Alliance

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Kali Handelman

“Jews in America aren’t endangered, but the power of the religious right has clearly reached a point where a great many feel exceedingly nervous. The fear is not of pogroms Continue Reading →

Zionism is Discriminatory? Ya Think?

Posted on February 3, 2005 by Kali Handelman

The end of Zionism? “In a landmark decision, Israel’s attorney general ruled last week that one of the fundamental tenets upon which the Jewish state was built — acquiring and Continue Reading →