Noah Habeeb asks us to remember that in order to successfully implement a just solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, we need to focus on the process of solving it, not just the solution.
Politics & Society
A Two-State Solution is the Only Option
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Alon Ben-Meir writes: “Israel and the Palestinians must choose to either live in peace or in a state of constant hostilities and bloodshed. The Palestinians’ right to a state of their own, coupled with unanimous international support, makes the two-state solution the only viable option.”
Analysis of Israel/Palestine
On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Back to Democratic Basics
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Sam Sussman outlines why Democrats should be critical of the Netanyahu goverment and the Occupation, now more than ever.
Analysis of Israel/Palestine
Moving Beyond Despair
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Don Waxman proposes a pragmatic approach which will “focus on campaigning for interim measures that Israel could easily adopt, measures that would dramatically improve the lives and enhance the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.”
Politics & Society
“The Ploughshare Without Fear”: Remembering Martin Buber (1878-1965)
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Carol Ascher on Martin Buber’s legacy and how we can honor and incorporate his vision for Jews and Israelis living “together with”.
Israel/Palestine
Repenting for What Israel Did to Gaza – Without Condoning the Wrongs Committed by Hamas
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The human suffering is monumental. The political consequence was a major rightward turn in Israel that shaped the 2015 Israeli elections.
Israel/Palestine
For Hazhir
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Jon Swan’s poem about drones is a haunting vision. “The drone hovers under the iron-gray dome of heaven . . .”
Politics & Society
Spaces and Places: Israel’s Homeland Narrative
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The conception of Yahweh as placeless reflects the Jewish sense of identity as essentially homeless. But the homelessness of the Jewish deity is in no way a defect — the Jewish concept of the divine represents a radical intellectual advance.
US_Politics
Coexistence, Equality, and Universal Principles in Israel/Palestine: Regrouping in the Absence of a Two-State Solution
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The most urgent focus must be on the worsening conditions faced by Palestinians, not on theoretical arguments about one state vs. two.
Articles
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Fantasy World
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Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was brilliantly deceitful because it played to the fantasies that Israeli propaganda and right wing militarists in the US have been popularizing for the past thirty years. The biggest fantasy: that we can coerce others through power over them to do what we consider in the best interests of the U.S. or Israel.
Analysis of Israel/Palestine
Bringing the Values of Open Hillel Into Postgraduate Life: An Open Letter
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Where will all the Open Hillelnikim go once they’ve left campus? What will become of this movement? How will you engage the Jewish community beyond campus? In short, how will you engage with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an American Jew?
Articles
The View from Palestine: American Jewish Journeys into the West Bank
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Extend programs are based on a simple belief that without understanding Palestinian perspectives, we are condemned to see the conflict as a matter of unequivocal good against unequivocal evil, instead of as a tragic cycle from which the overwhelmingly majority of Israelis and Palestinians want to break.
Articles
Before Mondoweiss: Jewish Anti-Nationalism in the Wake of the Holocaust
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Once upon a time, Hillel chapters across the country distributed an adamantly anti-Zionist newsletter that could well be described as the Mondoweiss of its day. Yet during the years in which the newsletter ran, Israel was gradually finding its place center-stage for Jews worldwide—a nightmare come true for the anti-Zionist camp.
Articles
Without Justice, Tolerance Perpetuates the Status Quo
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Within Open Hillel, we often talk about the value of embracing the discomfort we experience when hearing opinions that we disagree with. After all, ideas that make us uncomfortable may challenge our intellectual or emotional security, but rarely challenge our actual physical safety.
Analysis of Israel/Palestine
Assimilation Indeed: Hillel’s Co-optation of Progressive Jewish Students, 1967-2015
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For many Jewish students, the Six-Day War constituted the first time they experienced a connection to a Jewish cause recognized by the establishment. Unfortunately, the Hillel International of today has prioritized parroting the hasbara of expansionist Israeli governments over capacious intellectual debate.