This is the Forward’s coverage of Zionism, the movement in support of the state of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people.
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Fast Forward Turkish PM Calls Zionism Crime Against Humanity
Israel’s prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart on Thursday of making a “dark and false” statement by calling Zionism a crime against humanity – a comment likely to hit efforts to repair ties between the two former allies. The Turkish premier’s statement, made at a U.N. meeting in Vienna a day earlier, was also condemned…
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Culture A Two-Meaning Solution For Zionism
‘The Netanyahu government is the most anti-Zionist Israel has ever had,” Israeli author Amos Oz declared at a gathering for the left-wing Meretz party a few days before Israel’s elections. This is because, Oz said, Zionism means a Jewish state, and unless the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…
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News ZOA ‘Whistleblower’ Fired Amid Disarray
The Zionist Organization of America has fired an internal critic who aired concerns about the way the group has handled the recent revocation of its tax-exempt status and who referred to herself as a whistleblower in internal memos. Orit Arfa, the Los Angeles-based executive director of the ZOA’s Western Region, confirmed to the Forward that…
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Culture Miriam Margolyes Is Dickens of an Actress
When I met Miriam Margolyes at her friend’s cozy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she was sporting a bold floral house dress and a shock of wild white hair that seemed at odds with her upper-crust British accent. While she checked emails, she asked if I wanted anything to eat or drink, then admitted…
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Culture Left’s Love-Hate Relationship With Zionism
“From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel” By Robert S. Wistrich University of Nebraska Press, 648 pages, $55 Imagine this: It’s the summer of 1947 and you’re a Communist or a fellow traveler or a Socialist or another kind of anti-Stalinist. Despite myriad differences with political rivals, you share the same basic…
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News ZOA Cancels Annual Fundraising Dinner
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new information. The Zionist Organization of America has canceled its annual fundraising dinner because of the loss of its tax-exempt status, the organization has confirmed. The fundraiser, usually held in late November or early December, is a key annual event for the group. Recent galas have drawn…
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Opinion Adelson Funds Big Salaries
Of the 19 Jewish nonprofits that pay their top executives over $400,000, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Zionist Organization America are the only two that have total expenditures of less than $10 million a year. The RJC and the ZOA each spent around $3 million in 2010. That’s compared to the tens of millions…
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Israel News Behind Henry Siegman’s Turn on Israel
At 82, Henry Siegman felt pessimism setting in as he thought of the future of Israel and its decades-long conflict with the Palestinians. “The two-state solution,” he recently wrote “is dead.” For this son of German-Jewish refugees, who grew up to lead what was then one of American Jewry’s major organizations, it was the final…
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