Is France Anti-Semitic?
It has become something of a cliché among Jews here in America, and in Israel as well, that Europe is now experiencing a virulent new wave of anti-Semitism.
It has become something of a cliché among Jews here in America, and in Israel as well, that Europe is now experiencing a virulent new wave of anti-Semitism.
If ever there was an issue that merited the scrutiny and attention of the organized American Jewish community, it is the support of Israel and the Jewish people by evangelical Christians.
Last Friday, Walter Isaacson, the chairman and CEO of Cable News Network (CNN), dropped by The Jewish Journal\’s offices.
\”It\’s a war against indigenous people. Arafat was born there, while the other guy is from where, Poland?\”
So what will it take to end the decades of conflict between the Israelis and its Arab neighbors?
Let\’s first recognize the problem: For decades, we\’ve assumed it\’s an issue of land. But is that really so?
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, prophesied that the effect of a Jewish ingathering would be immediate. \”Its very inception,\” he wrote in \”Der Judenstaat\” in 1896, \”means the end of anti-Semitism.\”\n\nWell, not quite.\n\nHere we are, 54 years after Herzl\’s dream came true, and no one is feeling very secure these days.
We have entered a most precarious state in the century-old conflict between Jews and Arabs.
U.N. and E.U. diplomats, at least in their public comments, appear less vitriolic about the string of lethal suicide bombings in Israel than the Israeli response to them and often seem to morally equate the two.