La espada y el libro: cómo el sionismo violenta la tradición judía

Glorificar la guerra y la violencia es, como el sionismo mismo, un anatema para la fe judía.

Miko Peled
Por Miko Peled

JERUSALEM -- In his comprehensive treatise on the subject of Judaism vs. Zionism, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro writes, “The Jewish lifestyle is incompatible with the sword.” Violence and war are frowned upon in Judaism, which is one of the reasons that traditional, orthodox Jews by and large distance themselves from, if not completely rejecting, Zionism.

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Del judaísmo al fascismo: cómo los sionistas dieron la espalda a su propia cultura

Para los sionistas, el impulso de ascender por la escalera empapada de sangre del imperialismo, de no estar más en los peldaños inferiores, envolvió no solo su humanidad sino también sus propias enseñanzas culturales.

Eleanor Goldfield
Por Eleanor Goldfield
Right wing Jews Feature photo

WASHINGTON -- In late June of this year, New Scientist blandly reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had “used a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack Hamas militants,” the first documented case of a drone swarm being used in so-called combat. In his book, “Exterminate All The Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist contextualizes Adolf

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Lo que vi en Gaza me cambió para siempre

Mi verdadera liberación como judío está ligada a la liberación del pueblo palestino.

Ned Rosch
Por Ned Rosch
Palestinian children look out from their window in a section of a damaged apartment block, which was partially destroyed by Israel in 2014 in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Feb. 22, 2016. Hatem Moussa | AP

Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism is a powerful collection of 40 essays by Jews from diverse backgrounds. Each describes a personal journey from a Zionist worldview to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build a society founded on justice, equality, and peaceful coexistence. In this excerpt from the essay “Palestine and

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How I Became an Anti-Israel Jew

«Was this what they died for? My relatives, all those Jews, all those thousands of names on the memorials? Was this horror of a racist, repressive state the result of their deaths?»

Marika Sherwood
Por Marika Sherwood
Boycott Israel France

Bear with me. This is very difficult to write, but write it I must, however much the putting of words on paper intensifies the pain. When I was a small girl on a street corner in Budapest, watching a convoy of camp inmates being returned, I cried. No, not tears. By then I had learned not to cry, not to be a softie. You had to be tough to survive.

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Israel, Zionism And Judaism: Separating A National Identity From A Religious One

“Judaism is a religion and Zionism is a movement. For a lot of people, they don’t have a connection to a Jewish institution or community, so they look at Israel as a Jewish community,” an organizer for Jewish Voice for Peace tells MintPress.

Sarah Thamer
Por Sarah Thamer
Israeli soldiers and relatives of new Jewish immigrants from the U.S. and Canada, wave Israeli flags to welcome them as they arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 23, 2013.

RAMALLAH --- Dan Cohen didn’t always write about Israeli apartheid or the Palestinian struggle. The Jewish journalist was raised in a community of Zionist-filled ideologies in Arizona, and it wasn’t until just a few years ago that he decided to dedicate his life to challenging the media’s narrative by gathering the truth himself. For the past

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Israel’s ‘Jewish State’ Bill Divides Nation

The bill is a variant of a proposal that would’ve made the same definition, but guaranteed equal rights for all ethnic and religious minorities. Netanyahu’s version removed all mentions of equal rights.

Jason Ditz
Por Jason Ditz

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to push his bill to change the nation’s Basic Laws to define Israel as an exclusively Jewish State, despite growing signs that the wildly controversial bill is splitting the coalition, and indeed the nation. The bill is a variant of a proposal that would’ve made the same definition, but

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