Shany Mor
By Shany Mor
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Opinion Netanyahu just (accidentally) made his greatest contribution to a Jewish and democratic Israel
Two terrible ideas took a severe beating today with the announcement of a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates: annexation, and the Arab refusal to acknowledge Israel’s existence. Annexation of the West Bank, at least if annexation is understood as encompassing a large chunk of territory rather than a (hopefully agreed upon)…
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Opinion Stop calling anti-Zionism anti-Semitic. It’s morally repugnant in its own way.
Defining anti-Zionism should be easy. It is, as the name would suggest, opposition to Zionism. And since we all know what Zionism is, anti-Zionism should in theory be considerably simpler to define than, say, anti-Semitism, since there is no such thing as “semitism” which the anti-Semite opposes. Zionism, on the other hand, has an easily…
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Opinion Dear American Jewish boys: Please find another outlet for your Oedipal rage. Signed, Israeli Jews
Dear American Jewish boys, Please, please, take your Oedipal rage and find another outlet for it. It’s not Israel’s fault you hate your parents. Leave us out of this. I understand, I get it. You were 12, you were at summer camp, and someone gave you a heroic version of Israel’s history, and now that…
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Opinion Letter | Why Is Everyone Lying About Bard? Every Other Account Proves Ungar-Sargon Right.
Ever since Batya Ungar-Sargon described being protested at Bard College’s recent conference on — irony alert — racism and anti-Semitism, the college and the Hannah Arendt Center which hosted the conference have been in engaged in a full-court PR effort to recast the events and impugn her integrity. In four letters to the Forward, some…
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