Is caring about Israel “essential” to what being Jewish means today?
“Diaspora criticism of Israel is largely ineffective in influencing Israeli policy” Ilan Zvi Baron is Professor in International Political Theory and Deputy Head of School in the School of Government...
View ArticleThe Diaspora and Israel. The storms approaching
“There is no darkness but ignorance” -William Shakespeare Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs state it “has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global...
View ArticleI am not a neo-Zionist!
“Some stories are true that never happened.” – Elie Wiesel The other day while on my regular morning walk, stepping over the numerous potholes in my neighbourhood, a person I’ve known for considerable...
View ArticleThe language of classic prewar European antisemitism has returned
“Never again!” For many Jews, the term today seems to be just a dream fading into obscurity. For an insurmountable amount of years, I have tried my best to live up to two altruistic Jewish New Year...
View ArticleThe USA. Three Easy Steps. From Democracy to Mobocracy to Ochlocracy
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” -Elie Wiesel Last week in an article published in Foreign Affairs and written by...
View ArticleHamas, the deluded splenetic terrorist psychopaths of the Gaza Strip
The Psychopathic Theocratic Leaders of Gaza. (With a little help from friends). A pitiful, bog of land, consisting of 365 km², called the Gaza Strip. Clamoring to celebrate the daily antisemitic...
View ArticleOur pain and anger: Searching for the truth
Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don’t recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into your life and channel your emotional energy towards others, and...
View ArticleLet’s stop pussyfooting with terminology and call a spade a spade
We have no choice. It’s time for our diaspora youth to take up the gauntlet Let’s stop pussyfooting with terminology and call a spade a spade. It is time for ordinary diaspora Jews everywhere to raise...
View ArticleProbably the largest antisemitic hate-fest since the Holocaust
Back to the Future? It was Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Laureate who said, “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” By the...
View ArticleLest we Forget: Canada’s Jewish Military Veterans
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for...
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