The TypescriptJun 3, 2024
The Holocaust of the Tents
I struggle with the word “Zionism.” It seems to clearly describe the ideology – a set of beliefs, values, and assumptions following from a specific premise – that animates the policies of the State of Israel and its support in the Jewish Diaspora and among Euro-American Christian nationalists. I am not convinced that Zionism in the State of Israel
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The TypescriptMay 27, 2024
Hope and Hopelessness for Gaza
I feel a strange kind of hopelessness about Gaza and the cause of Palestinian human rights and autonomy. It is not that I believe that the State of Israel’s War on Gaza will never end; it must, if only because it is ultimately self-defeating. Nor is it because I believe that Palestinian statehood is further out of reach today than it was b
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The TypescriptMay 20, 2024
The Army of Chelm
The Israel Defense Forces must be the most incompetent armed force on the face of the planet. I know that this contradicts the image of a highly trained, well-armed, and ruthlessly efficient military but let’s face it: that’s marketing. Make no mistake, the IDF has scored some startling successes in its 76-year history. The rescue of some 250 passengers of an Air France Airbus A300 at by Israeli comm
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The Israel Defense Forces must be the most incompetent armed force on the face of the planet. I know that this contradicts the image of a highly trained, well-armed, and ruthlessly efficient military but let’s face it: that’s marketing. Make no mistake, the IDF has scored some startling successes in its 76-year history. The rescue

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The TypescriptMay 13, 2024
Everything the State of Israel Has Already Lost
The State of Israel has lost. That will be cold comfort to the people of Gaza who are suffering, starving, dying, and waiting for the IDF’s long-promised Rafah offensive. Still, six months into its bloody War on Gaza, the State of Israel not only can’t win, but it has surely lost much more than it could ha
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The TypescriptMay 6, 2024
“The Most Important Thing in the World”
What we all remember from participating in a protest march, or a demonstration for social justice, human rights, or peace, is the almost overwhelming feeling of being part of something. Long after the chants have echoed away, that sense of belonging, an undefinable experience of fellowship, remains. From the refusenik d
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The TypescriptApr 29, 2024
Teachable Moments
One of the most pernicious narratives promoted by pro-Israel organizations like Hillel International, the World Jewish Congress, and the ADL is that (some) Jewish college students are being made to feel uncomfortable, or unwelcomed by the campus antiwar demonstrations and encampments, and that this is evidence of a “sur
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One of the most pernicious narratives promoted by pro-Israel organizations like Hillel International, the World Jewish Congress, and the ADL is that (some) Jewish college students are being made to feel uncomfortable, or unwelcomed by the campus antiwar demonstrations and encampments, and that this is evidence of a “surge in campus antisemitism” and the justification

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The TypescriptApr 22, 2024

Zionism and the Golden Calf
I had planned to take it a bit easy this week. As the War grinds on, it wears me down. I am tempted to look away and write about other things, but I can’t. Still, it has been difficult to keep up the pace and engage with the horror in Gaza, and I wanted to dial it down. I wanted to spend the week focusing on preparations for Pesach.

T
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I had planned to take it a bit easy this week. As the War grinds on, it wears me down. I am tempted to look away and write about other things, but I can’t. Still, it has been difficult to keep up the pace and engage with the horror in Gaza, and I wanted to

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The TypescriptApr 14, 2024

Gaza, Moral Math, and Memory
News outlets are describing Iran's attack on the State of Israel as a "retaliatory strike." This means that they are responding to the State of Israel's bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. So, by any standard, the State of Israel "started it."

I find the moral math fascinating. The State of Israel, it
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The TypescriptApr 1, 2024
I had no idea when I started this journal more than five months ago that it would become, in part, an extended meditation on Zionism, Jewishness, and belonging. Yet, my comments about Matisyahu last week have become characteristic of where my thoughts often go, as I reflect on the ongoing horror in Gaza. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise the War on Gaza is being wage
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I had no idea when I started this journal more than five months ago that it would become, in part, an extended meditation on Zionism, Jewishness, and belonging. Yet, my comments about Matisyahu last week have become characteristic of where my thoughts often go, as I reflect on the ongoing horror in Gaza. It shouldn’t

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The TypescriptMar 25, 2024
Gaza Journal 22: “One Day”
I saw a photo today of my famous namesake Matisyahu literally wrapping himself in the Israeli flag. I don’t begrudge the singer – who, I seem to recall, is from White Plains, NY – his sense of commitment or connection to the State of Israel. I am well aware that many of my fellow Jews share that and, rather than denying them, I would
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