Einat Wilf
Introducing Muslim Zionism
It is time to dispense with the idea that to be a proud Arab and Muslim one must be an anti-Zionist.
Let’s lay the myth to rest: Rabin wouldn’t have brought peace.
In the unlikely case Rabin would have won the elections, the Israeli public would have pressured him to put the breaks on the so-called peace process.
The real killer of the two-state solution? The Palestinian right of return
The two-state solution was never killed — not by Israel or the U.S. — because in the Palestinian vision, it was never conceived.
Israel Doesn’t Need Liberal Judaism. It Needs Liberalism.
For the truth of the matter is, in the Israeli context, more religion — of whatever kind — translates into greater illiberalism.
Stop Trying To Bring Liberal Judaism To Israel. We Already Have Too Much Religion
American Jews developed their unique brand of Judaism in an environment that viewed religion as compatible with pluralism, civil rights and democracy.
The Gaza Protest Is About Ending Israel
Is the Arab and Islamic world, and the Palestinians among them, ready to acknowledge that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination?
A Day For Atheist Rebels Taking Charge Of Their Own Destiny
Israel’s Independence Day is the one day in the Hebrew calendar which truly belongs to the atheist rebels who founded Zionism.
What Anti-Israel Protestors Get Wrong About The Balfour Declaration
Israel is the outcome of deliberate Jewish action — not of foreign hand-outs.
Fund More Than Just Aliyah Efforts
Born in Israel, I was raised to believe in the absolute primacy of Jewish life in Israel and in aliyah as the only legitimate choice for Jews living a life of exile outside it. It is only as a teenager that I encountered a somewhat different view of aliyah.
Let the WJC Live Up To Its Name
In the Jewish world, as elsewhere, old structures are cracking in the face of new challenges. Most of these structures, unable to adapt to a new age, will break and be overtaken by new ones now being devised in the minds of young activists sitting in cafés in the world’s major cities. A select few will succeed in adapting and transforming themselves, privileged to continue writing an illustrious history in a new century.