Nationalism
A new theory of Jewish nationalism promises to be more liberal than the old one. But it profoundly misunderstands Zionism—and liberalism.
And peoplehood in general.
A short history that misses the essential thing.
They reflect the ideology of the German elite.
In praise of their “solidarity and clarity of purpose.”
It needs to restore a lost balance between national and individual rights.
And the argument otherwise is based on a false misunderstanding.
Because nationalism ties together the particular and the universal.
Most orchestral music composed since 1950, writes Oliver Rudland, pales in comparison with that of the previous 100 years. Even popular music, after its mid-century. . .
The famed writer and former Soviet dissident, who now chairs the Jewish Agency for Israel, talks about the importance of Jewish nationalism in an allegedly. . .
Toward the end of his career as a much-lauded historian of 20th-century Europe, the late Tony Judt made a name writing scathing condemnations of American. . .
Proposed legislation in Israel to give legal status to its identity as the Jewish state has been roundly condemned as racist, undemocratic, and reactionary. Such. . .
Why do so many “good Europeans” hate Israel? Hint: it embodies the very thing they are missing, and are supposed to reject.