Continuity and Discontinuity

This paper argues that antizionism must be understood, like the antisemitism that came before it, as an ideology. Here I draw upon Arendt’s definition of ideology as a radical distortion of social and political relations. I draw also upon Fine and Spencer’s understanding of the Jewish question as the antisemitic reaction to Jewish emancipation. I argue that antizionism is a reconfiguration of that reaction in the context of Jews’ modern emancipation in the form of national self-determination in the State of Israel. While that modern reaction, antizionism, displays both continuity and discontinuity with the antisemitism that came before it, it remains a manifestation of the Jewish question

Narrative and Belonging: The Politics of Ambiguity, The Jewish State, and the Thought of Edward Said and Hannah Arendt

At the core of this thesis, I examine the difficulties of giving an account of oneself in modern associational life. By integrating the theory and political activism of both Edward Said and Hannah Arendt, I follow the Zionist response to European antisemitism and the Palestinian responses to Jewish settler colonialism. Both parties struggle against their ambiguous presence within local and regional hegemonic social taxonomy, and within the world order. Contemporarily, this struggle takes place in the protracted conflict between Israeli and local Arab groups, which has been managed through violence and objectification, as opposed to allowing the dynamism and reconfiguration of political subjectivities. In their later writings, Arendt and Said respond to the violence and resentment that arises from the form of the nation-state by prescribing, and arguably practicing, an understanding of politics where the “other” is constitutive of the “self.” By seeing this relation of alternity as the contemporary heir to diasporic Judaism and Jewish cosmopolitanism, I argue that this project holds the historical traction to reinvigorate the future beyond static and growing violence and dispossession

Menorah Review (No. 52, Spring/Summer, 2001)

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تطور الصهيونية(اليهودية) من الفكرة إلى الحركة ( من يهودا القلعي إلى ثيودور هرتسل

The Evolution of Zionism Judaism from the Idea to The movement From Yahuda Alkalia to Theodore Herzl (1838-1904) Jewish Zionism emerged centuries after the spread of non-Jewish Zionism among Christians in Europe. This type of Zionism was associated with the first half of the nineteenth century, and a number of Zionist thinkers such as Alkalia Kalisher and Hess represented the first stage in the development of Zionism. They raised the idea of the Jews' return to the Promised Land and the establishment of settlements, And thus the formulation of religious Zionism at the hands of Alkali and Kalisher and then the formulation of Jewish nationalism by Hess. Alkali and Kalisher were the first Jewish thinkers who sought a solution to the Jewish question. The idea was to be resurrected at the beginning of the 1880s by Smolenskin, Ben Yehuda, Lilienblum and pin Pinsker, who rose up intellectually in the wake of the Russian pressure on the Jews, renounced theThe Evolution of Zionism Judaism from the Idea to The movement From Yahuda Alkalia to Theodore Herzl (1838-1904) Jewish Zionism emerged centuries after the spread of non-Jewish Zionism among Christians in Europe. This type of Zionism was associated with the first half of the nineteenth century, and a number of Zionist thinkers such as Alkalia Kalisher and Hess represented the first stage in the development of Zionism. They raised the idea of the Jews' return to the Promised Land and the establishment of settlements, And thus the formulation of religious Zionism at the hands of Alkali and Kalisher and then the formulation of Jewish nationalism by Hess. Alkali and Kalisher were the first Jewish thinkers who sought a solution to the Jewish question. The idea was to be resurrected at the beginning of the 1880s by Smolenskin, Ben Yehuda, Lilienblum and pin Pinsker, who rose up intellectually in the wake of the Russian pressure on the Jews, renounced the idea of Jewish integration, and took care of Hebrew, immigration, settlement and the reconstruction of Palestine so that future generations could live a life Natural nationalism after creating a Jewish nation for a Jewish people living on its national soil. These were the second stage of the development of Zionism and paved the way for the emergence of political Zionism at the hands of Theodore Herzl, the author of the Jewish State, in which he analyzed the Jewish problem and called for its transformation into a global issue that the major powers must solve by giving the Jews sovereignty over a patch of land Of a nation. Rather, it was a direct product of Western colonial thought, and the idea and activity of Zionism was the third and fourth stage of Zionist development

The Balfour Declaration: Between History and Narrative.

100 years have passed since the Balfour declaration, and this significant historical document is still under much scrutiny and at the same time highly relevant. Each side – the Jews and the Palestinians – makes a structured political use of it, in order to justify its arguments, and to criticizes what does not fit his narrative; and this mainly to deepen his justifications and nationalist ideology