anti-Zionist Research Articles

The Idea of Lands Provided in Hasidic Judaism: Anti-Israel

Çalışmanın konusu Hasidik Yahudiliğin vaat edilmiş topraklar fikri ve bu fikrin oluşturduğu İsrail karşıtlığıdır. Vaat edilmiş topraklar fikri seçilmişlik, ahitleşme ve tek Kutsal Mabet ile bütündür. Bunları birleştiren ise Mesih beklentisidir. Yahudiler vaat edilmiş topraklarda Süleyman’ın mabedi Tanah’da belirtildiği şekilde inşa ettiğinde zirveyi yaşamışlardır. Ancak, Beytü’l Makdis’in ve Kudüs’ün iki defa tahribi Yahudileri bu topraklardan uzak yaşamaya mecbur bırakmıştır. Diaspora, Tanrı’nın seçtiği ve ahitleşerek vaat ettiği kutsal topraklarda tek mabet etrafında şekillenen bir hayattan mahrum kalma ve özlem demektir. Özlemin Mesih’in gelişiyle sona ereceğine inanç ise geleneksel kabuldür. Ancak Mesih gelmeyince Fransız İhtilali’nden sonra yükselen milliyetçilik akımı ve antisemitik olaylar Yahudileri Siyonizmi kurmaya itmiştir. Siyonizm sosyal, siyasal, ekonomik ve askeri alanlarda verdiği mücadelelerle 1948’de İsrail’i kurmuştur. Ancak insan eliyle kurulduğu için geleneksel Yahudilik tarafından meşru görülmemiştir. Hasidik Yahudilik ise Siyonizmi ve İsrail’i doğal olmamakla ve Mesih’in gelişini geciktirmekle suçlamış ve seküler yaşam biçimini reddetmiştir. İsrail karşıtlığını fiili şekilde sürdürmektedir.

‘Anti-Zionism’ and the fight against anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia, 1967–1969

‘Anti-Zionism’ and the fight against anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia, 1967–1969

The Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Anti-Racism Controversy Revisited—Controversially?

The Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Anti-Racism Controversy Revisited—Controversially?

Zionism and Anti-Zionism: A Debate

Zionism and Anti-Zionism: A Debate

Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Irrational Critique of Israel and Palestine: New Clothes for Traditional Prejudice?

Among researchers of Antisemitism there is a relative consensus that at least some criticisms of Israel may indeed be a form of expressing Antisemitic prejudice in a more socially approved manner. However, the relations between Antisemitism and anti-Israelism are yet to be fully explained, especially since the issue is inextricably linked with the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two presented studies have two purposes: firstly, to measure Polish attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, secondly, to establish the relationship between anti-Israelism and anti-Palestinism and more traditional types of prejudice, like Antisemitism and Islamophobia. In the first study (N = 301) we constructed a questionnaire of perception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with three subscales: Rational approach to conflict, extreme pro-Israeli opinions and extreme pro-Palestinian opinions. In the second study (N = 190) we found that both Antisemitism and Islamophobia predict the way Poles perceive the conflict between Israel and Palestine and beliefs in Jewish conspiracy seem to play the biggest role here. There is also evidence anti–Israelism is expressed not by criticizing Israel, but rather by expressing full support for Palestine. The questionnaire presented in this article may be treated as an indirect measure of Antisemitic prejudice, expressed in a more socially approved manner. Our findings may shed a new light on anti–Israelism and anti-Palestinism.

When Anti-Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism and Zionism Becomes Anti-Palestinian

When Anti-Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism and Zionism Becomes Anti-Palestinian

A Radical's View of Zionism Today

The writer of this article, Canadian-born Shelly Shreter, studied at Berkley University, California, and is at present doing post-graduate work at the London School of Economics. His views reflect recent trends among American Jewish students and young people. Partly as a reaction to the anti-Israel stance of the ‘New Left’, these Jewish radicals, without giving up their radicalism, are searching for a synthesis between their Jewish consciousness and social commitment. Some of them, like the present writer, have found that their place is with the Israeli Left in securing a just and progressive society in Israel, not merely by propagating their ideas but by active participation. Others look for a ‘reformed’ Judaism, which leads them to a re-interpretation of the essence of Khassidism and an attempt at giving a new meaning to the idea of ‘Havurot’, a new kind of community living. Others still are trying to define their Jewishness in terms of a new Americanism based on a pluralistic society in which Jews can ...

Rabbi outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish anti-Zionism

Rabbi outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish anti-Zionism

A RESPONSE TO PHILIP KHOURY'S REVIEW OF THE CONSCIENCE OFLEBANON: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF ETIENNE SAKR (ABU-ARZ) (IJMES 36 [2004]: 306–8)

I intend not to defend my book but to protest its “reviewer,” whose first responsibility—as for any reviewer—was to relate what the book is about, even chapter by chapter. But Philip Khoury betrayed the reviewer's task concerning my book The Conscience of Lebanon , choosing to use it as a foil to propagate his own Arabist and anti–Israeli political views. His was not a book review but a mean-spirited tirade. He writes, “Etienne Sakr was a minor Lebanese militia leader,” though I deal with this point myself; the review is jaundiced by repetitive labeling (“right-wing Lebanese leaders”) and vindictively vilifies my study as not a “systematic work of scholarship.”

Beyond San Francisco: The Failure of Anti-Zionism in Portland, Oregon

L'article traite de l'histoire de la communaute juive dans l'Ouest americain, plus particulierement des developpements du sionisme dans cette region. L'A. cherche a evaluer la portee des resistances et de l'adhesion au sionisme lors de la premiere moitie du XXeme siecle a Portland dans la communaute, dues a la composition et aux origines de la population.

The Debate over Zionism and Racism: An Israeli View

The Debate over Zionism and Racism: An Israeli View

International conferences: Anti-Israel moves

International conferences: Anti-Israel moves

Rákosi and the ‘Anti‐Zionist’ campaign of 1952–53

Rákosi and the ‘Anti‐Zionist’ campaign of 1952–53

U.S. Jews’ reaction to Soviet “anti‐zionism”

U.S. Jews’ reaction to Soviet “anti‐zionism”

Anti-Zionism and the Church

Anti-Zionism and the Church

The Anti-Zionist Resolution

The Anti-Zionist Resolution

Left‐wing “ anti‐Zionism “ in Norway

Left‐wing “ anti‐Zionism “ in Norway

Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew

Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew

Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew

Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew