Mitt Romney can’t find enough good things to say about Israel. And like his now defunct challengers, Gingrich and Santorum, he continually accuses President Obama of failing to support the Jewish state.
Posts Tagged ‘Zionism’
June 1st, 2011
Beyond denial
posted by Justin Neuman
For a brief moment in 2007, news of a hit Iranian television series, whose Farsi title was translated variously as Zero Degree Turn or Zero Point Orbit, proliferated across the print and digital mediascapes of the Anglophone world. The series, created by Iranian director Hassan Fathi at great expense and broadcast in a thirty-episode season on the flagship state television station IRIB1, revolves around a Romeo and Juliet plot of illicit romance, with a distinctive twist: while the proverbial Romeo is one Habib Parsa (played by Iranian hearthrob Shahab Hosseini), a Muslim Iranian pursuing his studies in France, his Juliet is none other than a Jewish classmate, Sarah Astrok (played by the French actress Nathalie Matti), with whom he falls in love.
April 1st, 2011
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
posted by Nathan Schneider
Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most recent books are Frames of War (2009) and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (2011), an SSRC volume that puts her in conversation with Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West. As we carried out our conversation by email between Brooklyn and Berkeley, uprisings were occurring across the Arab world, and a U.S.-led coalition had just begun conducting airstrikes in support of rebel forces in Libya. We had discussed some similar questions, and some different ones, a year earlier in an interview for Guernica magazine.
July 27th, 2010
Questions of Zionism, conversion, and the diaspora
posted by Amanda KaplanNatan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency for Israel and now, as The New York Times reports, leader of “a committee of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements” on the controversial conversion legislation currently being debated in Israel and by Jews worldwide, has an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post laying bare the state of affairs as it stands, and gesturing toward a silver lining amidst the ugly infighting.
April 12th, 2010
The experiment that did not fail?
posted by John D. BoyOn the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Degania kibbutz, J. J. Goldberg writes about the decline of the institution in this week’s Forward. The demise of the original utopian vision of a better society was not inevitable; it was “murdered” by a “combination of malice and neglect by government officials and incompetence by planners in the central kibbutz federation in the 1980s.”
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