Mahmoud Abbas’s Desperate Boycott Strategy
Endorsing BDS won’t help the Palestinian cause.
February 28, 2018
For some time, Jews assumed it would be rebuilt imminently.
In 70 CE, Roman centurions—in the midst of quashing a Jewish revolt against the emperor’s authority—sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple. This event, writes Martin Goodman, “demanded a religious explanation” in the eyes of most Jews. In an excerpt from his new book on the history of Judaism, he explains how they reacted to this trauma:
Endorsing BDS won’t help the Palestinian cause.
And allows the slaughter to continue.
Two American vice-presidents and the Jewish yearning to return to the land of Israel.
For some time, Jews assumed it would be rebuilt imminently.
Smug secularism, curiosity, and the Enlightenment.
In 70 CE, Roman centurions—in the midst of quashing a Jewish revolt against the emperor’s authority—sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple. This event, writes Martin Goodman, “demanded a religious explanation” in the eyes of most Jews. In an excerpt from his new book on the history of Judaism, he explains how they reacted to this trauma:
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