Anti-Zionist Jews and the Limits of the Big Tent https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2024/05/anti-zionist-jews-and-the-limits-of-the-big-tent/

May 1, 2024 | Yossi Klein Halevi and David A. Ingber
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At the Columbia demonstrations, a group of Jewish participants held a seder last week. This was just one of many instances of Jewish opponents of Israel loudly displaying both their Jewish and anti-Israel bona fides. Most of the available data suggest that such radical positions are held only by a small minority of U.S. Jews. Nonetheless, some Jewish communities have since October 7 become sharply divided over attitudes toward Israel.

The American-Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi and the Jewish Renewal rabbi David A. Ingber discuss these divides with Dan Senor, and ask the uncomfortable but inevitable question: at what point should the Jewish community reject entirely those who make common cause with Israel’s enemies? They also ask how the situation got so bad: Halevi notes an unhealthy Jewish obsession with victimhood, Ingber a climate at liberal synagogues and seminaries where “rejecting social justice is a bigger heresy . . . than saying you don’t believe in God.” (Audio, 66 minutes.)

 

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