(Author: Benji Shulman, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Zionism and the Environment 111 years ago, a proposal was put to the first Zionist Congress to set up a “national fund” to buy land so as to enable Jews to settle in their ancient home. To
(Author: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Introduction The political Left is a broad church, so it follows that any discussion of its views and tendencies apply to some of its constituent groups and not to others. The groups to which I will be
(Author: David Benatar, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) It is often suggested that the example of South Africa’s transition from Apartheid to democracy in a unitary state is a model from which we can learn lessons for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian (and broader
(Author: Shelley Glaser, Vol. 69, No. 3, Chanukah 2014) The State of Israel is a country under ideological siege. Critics of the Jewish state advance their agenda by employing a number of dubious political comparisons. They accuse Israel of being an apartheid, racist, colonial
(Author: Kenneth D Penkin, Vol. 69, No. 3, Chanukah 2014) Winston Churchill once quipped that, “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”. One of the worst and oft-told calumnies against the State of
