Word: zionistic
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...evoke memories of the dreaded armbands worn by Jews in Nazi-era Europe. Such associations must surely have been unintended by the “Harvard Students for Israel,” but the comp ad’s blazing slogan gives the thoughtful viewer pause. Did the Zionist organization mean to make light of the conflict in the Middle East, sporting with Israel’s fears in the proposition, “Israel: It’s safe to come”? Or is the ad intended to elicit sympathy for Israel’s plight by elevating...
...Christian right, such as school prayer, has kept most Jews firmly in the Democratic camp. But that may be changing. At the AIPAC convention last week, one of the most enthusiastically received speakers was DeLay, the born-again Christian who has lately positioned himself as the most ardent Zionist in Congress. At the grass roots, Jews say they feel a growing solidarity with Fundamentalist Christians about Israel. "I listen to Rush Limbaugh now," says Moira Klein, 72, a liberal Jewish retiree who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., "and I like what I hear." Republicans hope that they will be hearing...
...April, Holt/Metropolitan will publish "Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel" by Tom Segev. PW says Mazel Tov, giving the book a starred review. "Segev presents a startling and necessary view of contemporary Israel: it is a place so Americanized that the old Zionist collective identity has been replaced by individualism and consumerism; it is a place of ethnic and religious turmoil where traditional Israeli identity has become painfully fractured...Zionism has been a success, Segev argues, and its time is past. But, he admits sadly, 'Palestinian terrorism seems to push Israelis back into the Zionist womb...
...Sun’s editorial page will be more conservative than that of the New York Times, with regular contributors such as Peggy Noonan, a speechwriter for President Reagan. Though Stoll’s Smartertimes.com has been criticized for its heavy focus on the Israeli conflict and its Zionist approach, staff members said editorial content would not affect the Sun’s news coverage...
...sure, those who blame Israel for the aggression against it usually deny that they are anti-Jewish. They say that they are merely anti-Israel and anti-Zionist, not against the Jewish people as such. But as Hillel Halkin sums it up in the latest issue of Commentary, “Israel is the state of the Jews. Zionism is the belief that the Jews should have a state. To defame Israel is to defame the Jews. To wish that it never existed, or would cease to exist, is to wish to destroy the Jews.” This syllogism...