By Celebrating “World Jerusalem Day,” Hamas Pledges Fealty to Iran
And distances itself from the Sunni states.
June 21, 2019
Albert Memmi: The Great Theorist of Decolonization Who Saw the Dangers of Anti-Zionism
To Memmi national identity was a necessity and Zionism a liberation movement.
In an excerpt from her recent book, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky, Susie Linfield explores the great Tunisian-Jewish writer Albert Memmi’s sustained and simultaneous commitment to socialism, Zionism, and Jewishness. For Memmi, whose 1957 book The Colonizer and the Colonized galvanized a generation of anti-colonial thinkers, Zionism was above all a national liberation movement. But unlike his colleagues on the left, he foresaw, and never shied away from condemning, the dangers of terrorism, anti-Semitism, and Islamic fundamentalism from within former European colonies:
June 21, 2019
The Palestinian Authority’s Refusal to Attend the Bahrain Conference Is Irresponsible and Self-Defeating
And a possible violation of the Oslo Accords.
Why Herman Wouk Will Achieve an Immortality Unlike Any Other Jewish Cultural Figure of His Time
He wrote about the greatest story of all.
Albert Memmi: The Great Theorist of Decolonization Who Saw the Dangers of Anti-Zionism
To Memmi national identity was a necessity and Zionism a liberation movement.
Historic Communal Registers Provide a Window onto Centuries of Jewish Civil Society
The pinkes.