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Articles tagged as "Zionism"

When Politics are Sacralized?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Raef Zreik
October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

At its core, Zionism is not the political being sacralized, but the religious being politicized.

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Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Joshua Lupo
September 21, 2022October 12, 2022

What the contributors to this symposium show is that it is possible to engage in comparative work that is attentive to history, social and political complexity, and diversity without losing track of the more abstract concepts that are necessary to compare cross-culturally.

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Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022September 13, 2022

The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.

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A Conversation with Shaul Magid and Friends on Meir Kahane and Political Theology

Joshua Lupo
August 10, 2022

Magid’s book and this discussion draw attention to how coloniality and modernity, especially in their religious elements, continue to perpetuate racism, misogyny, and xenophobia today.

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Unasking Europe’s Jewish Question

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Brian Klug
September 16, 2021September 17, 2021

Despite its name, the Jewish Question was not a Jewish question as such; it was a European question, whose subject was the Jews.

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Introducing The Arab and Jewish Questions

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Leila Farsakh
August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

This book interrogates the opposition between the “Arab” and the “Jew” in order to challenge dominant understandings of political identities, nationalism, and citizenship rights.

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The IHRA’s Careless Conflations on Antisemitism (and Few Alternatives)

Moshe Behar
March 25, 2021August 19, 2022

Branding as “antisemitic” criticism of Israeli actions pertaining to its occupation—on the ground that this applies a double standard—is Orwellian.

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Ending Exile with the Prophetic Voice of the Diasporic Jew

Series: Policing Analogies
Susannah Heschel
September 25, 2020September 25, 2020

Can there be a prophetic voice today without diaspora?

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The Price of (non) Whiteness

Series: Policing Analogies
Shaul Magid
September 18, 2020September 25, 2020

Are American Jews willing to forfeit some of that privilege, whatever that might mean, as a gesture to those whose who cannot “pass” into the space of whiteness?

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Between Minneapolis and East Jerusalem

Ruth Carmi
July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

Understanding that racism, sexism, imperialism, globalization, capitalism, and militarism are interlinked means we cannot myopically call to eradicate one while upholding the other.

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