Nationalism
Is it possible to justify the existence of a Jewish state? So asked the late Ruth Gavison back in 2003, and her answer resounds as strongly now as it did then.
The chosen and the woke.
With an exegesis of the Tanakh’s final verses.
Not antithetical, but complementary.
Particularism, universalism, and the circumcision of Jesus.
The mistake of comparisons with either black nationalism or white supremacism.
Defective history and some untenable key distinctions mar a brilliant, necessary, and much-discussed new book.
Game of peacock thrones.
Against imperialism from Assyria to the EU.
Nationalism as a force for good.
What Ernest Renan and Theodor Herzl held in common.
Many are dismayed at the recent embrace of Israel by some unsavory national leaders; Zionism’s founding father would see it as a vindication of his vision.
Can we learn anything from Hans Kohn?