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The much touted crisis of liberalism is something I'm pretty familiar with as an Israeli.
Liberal Jews - mostly in America - are continually dismayed by their cousins' slide into authoritarianism and ethnic chauvinism. The fact is, this was a long time coming.
Liberal Jews - mostly in America - are continually dismayed by their cousins' slide into authoritarianism and ethnic chauvinism. The fact is, this was a long time coming.
The common refrain from liberal diaspora Jews is that Israel cannot be both a liberal democracy and an ethnonationalist military hegemon over 3 million Palestinians.
Despite what the Hasbara might say, the Israeli Right knows this. They just don't care.
Despite what the Hasbara might say, the Israeli Right knows this. They just don't care.
in the past few decades, Israel has consciously rejected its founders' vision of a secular, modern state based on 19th century romantic European socialism & nationalism. Instead, they see Israel unabashedly as a Jewish civilisation-state that needn't follow democratic principles.
Far from being a Light Unto the Nations, the return of the Jewish People has involved a rediscovering of their nation's more chauvinistic, sectarian and tribal past. A language that liberal Jews in New York and Tel Aviv no longer understand, but many Arabs, ironically, do.
