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<\/a><\/p>\nNow would be the correct time for Ali Abunimah, JVP,\u00a0 & CO to form an orderly queue to issue their deep and sincere apology to me. Since the early 2000s my detractors within the so called Jewish \u2018Left\u2019 together with\u00a0 their sometime stooges, have been harassing me<\/span>,<\/a> my publishers and my readers for pointing out that Zionism is an obsolete concept with little meaning for Israel, Israelis\u00a0 and their politics let alone the conflict that has been destroying the Eastern Mediterranean region<\/h5>\nIn my 2011 book The Wandering Who<\/span><\/a>, I argue that \u201cSince Israel defines itself openly as the \u2018Jewish State\u2019, we should ask what the notions of \u2019Judaism\u2019, \u2018Jewishness\u2019, \u2018Jewish culture\u2019 and \u2018Jewish ideology\u2019 stand for.\u201d Just before the publication of the book I was urged by both JVP\u2019s leader and Ali Abunimah<\/a><\/span> to drop the J-Word and focus solely on Zionism. In Britain, a gang of so called \u2018anti\u2019 Zionist Jews relentlessly terrorised my publisher and promoters. Funny, most of these authoritarian tribals who worked 24\/7 to silence me have been expelled from the British Labour Party for alleged anti-Semitism. Now, they promote the ideal of \u2018freedom of speech.\u2019<\/h5>\nIn \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 and in the years preceding its publication, I realised that the Palestinian solidarity discourse has been suffocated with misleading and often duplicitous terminology<\/span><\/a> that was set to divert\u00a0 attention from the root cause of the conflict and that acted \u00a0to prevent intelligible discussion of\u00a0 possible solutions.<\/h5>\nLet\u2019s face it. Israel doesn\u2019t see\u00a0 itself as the Zionist State: not one Israeli party integrated the word \u2018Zionism\u2019 into its name. To Israelis, Zionism is a dated and clich\u00e9d concept that describes the ideology that promised to erect a Jewish homeland in Palestine. For Israelis, Zionism fulfilled its purpose in 1948, it is now an archaic term. In \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 I presented a so-far unrefuted argument that an understanding of \u2018Jewishness\u2019, a term familiar to every self-identified Jew, may provide answers to most questions related to Israel and its politics. It may also help us to grasp the fake dissent that has dominated the so- called Jewish \u2018anti\u2019 Zionist campaign for the last two decades.<\/h5>\nThough I was probably the first to write about the crucial shift in Israeli society in favour of Judeo-centrism, this shift is now mainstream news.\u00a0 Haaretz\u2019s lead writer, Anshel Pfeffer<\/span>, <\/a>just wrote a spectacular analysis of this transformation. Pfeffer\u2019s view is that Israelis are going to the polls this Tuesday to decide whether they are \u201cJews\u201d or \u201cIsraelis.\u201d<\/h5>\nAccording to Pfeffer, in the mid 1990s it was Netanyahu\u2019s American campaign guru, Arthur Finkelstein, who promoted\u00a0 \u201ca message that could reach secular and religious voters alike. In his polling, he had asked voters whether they considered themselves \u2018more Jewish\u2019 or \u2018more Israeli.\u2019 The results convinced him there was a much larger constituency of voters, not just religious ones, who emphasized their Jewish identity over their Israeli one.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn light of Finkelstein\u2019s observation, Likud focused its message on Jerusalem. Its campaign slogan was:\u00a0 \u201cPeres will divide Jerusalem.\u201d In the final 48 hours before Election Day there was also \u201can unofficial slogan, emblazoned on millions of posters and bumper stickers distributed by Chabad Hasidim: \u201cNetanyahu is good for the Jews.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn a Haaretz interview after his narrow 1996 defeat, Peres lamented that \u201cthe Israelis lost the election.\u201d When asked then who had won, he answered, \u201cThe Jews won.\u201d<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that Netanyahu learned from Finkelstein that the \u201cJew\u201d is the primary unifier for Israelis. This certainly applies to religious Jews but also to those who regard themselves as secular. After all, Israel has really been the \u201cJewish State\u201d for a while.<\/h5>\nThis is probably the right place to point out that Netanyahu\u2019s move of locating Jewishness at the heart of Israel is a reversal of the original Zionist promise. While early Zionism was a desperate attempt to divorce the Jews from the ghetto and their tribal obsession and make them \u201cpeople like all other people,\u201d the present adherence to Jewishness and kinship induces\u00a0 a return to Judeo-centric chauvinism. As odd as this may sound, Netanyahu\u2019s transformation of Israel into a \u2018Jewish realm\u2019 makes him an ardent anti Zionist probably more anti Zionist than JVP, Mondoweiss and the BDS together.<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and\u00a0 formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition, was when \u201cthe Jews prevailed \u2014 and have done so ever since in four consecutive elections, including the last one in April 2019.\u201d<\/h5>\nTo illustrate this Pfeffer cites the 2012 Israeli\u00a0 High Court of Justice decision to deny a petition by writer Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/a> and others to allow themselves to be registered solely as \u2018Israelis\u2019 as opposed to \u2018Jews.\u2019<\/h5>\nEvery so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
In \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 and in the years preceding its publication, I realised that the Palestinian solidarity discourse has been suffocated with misleading and often duplicitous terminology<\/span><\/a> that was set to divert\u00a0 attention from the root cause of the conflict and that acted \u00a0to prevent intelligible discussion of\u00a0 possible solutions.<\/h5>\nLet\u2019s face it. Israel doesn\u2019t see\u00a0 itself as the Zionist State: not one Israeli party integrated the word \u2018Zionism\u2019 into its name. To Israelis, Zionism is a dated and clich\u00e9d concept that describes the ideology that promised to erect a Jewish homeland in Palestine. For Israelis, Zionism fulfilled its purpose in 1948, it is now an archaic term. In \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 I presented a so-far unrefuted argument that an understanding of \u2018Jewishness\u2019, a term familiar to every self-identified Jew, may provide answers to most questions related to Israel and its politics. It may also help us to grasp the fake dissent that has dominated the so- called Jewish \u2018anti\u2019 Zionist campaign for the last two decades.<\/h5>\nThough I was probably the first to write about the crucial shift in Israeli society in favour of Judeo-centrism, this shift is now mainstream news.\u00a0 Haaretz\u2019s lead writer, Anshel Pfeffer<\/span>, <\/a>just wrote a spectacular analysis of this transformation. Pfeffer\u2019s view is that Israelis are going to the polls this Tuesday to decide whether they are \u201cJews\u201d or \u201cIsraelis.\u201d<\/h5>\nAccording to Pfeffer, in the mid 1990s it was Netanyahu\u2019s American campaign guru, Arthur Finkelstein, who promoted\u00a0 \u201ca message that could reach secular and religious voters alike. In his polling, he had asked voters whether they considered themselves \u2018more Jewish\u2019 or \u2018more Israeli.\u2019 The results convinced him there was a much larger constituency of voters, not just religious ones, who emphasized their Jewish identity over their Israeli one.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn light of Finkelstein\u2019s observation, Likud focused its message on Jerusalem. Its campaign slogan was:\u00a0 \u201cPeres will divide Jerusalem.\u201d In the final 48 hours before Election Day there was also \u201can unofficial slogan, emblazoned on millions of posters and bumper stickers distributed by Chabad Hasidim: \u201cNetanyahu is good for the Jews.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn a Haaretz interview after his narrow 1996 defeat, Peres lamented that \u201cthe Israelis lost the election.\u201d When asked then who had won, he answered, \u201cThe Jews won.\u201d<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that Netanyahu learned from Finkelstein that the \u201cJew\u201d is the primary unifier for Israelis. This certainly applies to religious Jews but also to those who regard themselves as secular. After all, Israel has really been the \u201cJewish State\u201d for a while.<\/h5>\nThis is probably the right place to point out that Netanyahu\u2019s move of locating Jewishness at the heart of Israel is a reversal of the original Zionist promise. While early Zionism was a desperate attempt to divorce the Jews from the ghetto and their tribal obsession and make them \u201cpeople like all other people,\u201d the present adherence to Jewishness and kinship induces\u00a0 a return to Judeo-centric chauvinism. As odd as this may sound, Netanyahu\u2019s transformation of Israel into a \u2018Jewish realm\u2019 makes him an ardent anti Zionist probably more anti Zionist than JVP, Mondoweiss and the BDS together.<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and\u00a0 formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition, was when \u201cthe Jews prevailed \u2014 and have done so ever since in four consecutive elections, including the last one in April 2019.\u201d<\/h5>\nTo illustrate this Pfeffer cites the 2012 Israeli\u00a0 High Court of Justice decision to deny a petition by writer Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/a> and others to allow themselves to be registered solely as \u2018Israelis\u2019 as opposed to \u2018Jews.\u2019<\/h5>\nEvery so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
Though I was probably the first to write about the crucial shift in Israeli society in favour of Judeo-centrism, this shift is now mainstream news.\u00a0 Haaretz\u2019s lead writer, Anshel Pfeffer<\/span>, <\/a>just wrote a spectacular analysis of this transformation. Pfeffer\u2019s view is that Israelis are going to the polls this Tuesday to decide whether they are \u201cJews\u201d or \u201cIsraelis.\u201d<\/h5>\nAccording to Pfeffer, in the mid 1990s it was Netanyahu\u2019s American campaign guru, Arthur Finkelstein, who promoted\u00a0 \u201ca message that could reach secular and religious voters alike. In his polling, he had asked voters whether they considered themselves \u2018more Jewish\u2019 or \u2018more Israeli.\u2019 The results convinced him there was a much larger constituency of voters, not just religious ones, who emphasized their Jewish identity over their Israeli one.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn light of Finkelstein\u2019s observation, Likud focused its message on Jerusalem. Its campaign slogan was:\u00a0 \u201cPeres will divide Jerusalem.\u201d In the final 48 hours before Election Day there was also \u201can unofficial slogan, emblazoned on millions of posters and bumper stickers distributed by Chabad Hasidim: \u201cNetanyahu is good for the Jews.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn a Haaretz interview after his narrow 1996 defeat, Peres lamented that \u201cthe Israelis lost the election.\u201d When asked then who had won, he answered, \u201cThe Jews won.\u201d<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that Netanyahu learned from Finkelstein that the \u201cJew\u201d is the primary unifier for Israelis. This certainly applies to religious Jews but also to those who regard themselves as secular. After all, Israel has really been the \u201cJewish State\u201d for a while.<\/h5>\nThis is probably the right place to point out that Netanyahu\u2019s move of locating Jewishness at the heart of Israel is a reversal of the original Zionist promise. While early Zionism was a desperate attempt to divorce the Jews from the ghetto and their tribal obsession and make them \u201cpeople like all other people,\u201d the present adherence to Jewishness and kinship induces\u00a0 a return to Judeo-centric chauvinism. As odd as this may sound, Netanyahu\u2019s transformation of Israel into a \u2018Jewish realm\u2019 makes him an ardent anti Zionist probably more anti Zionist than JVP, Mondoweiss and the BDS together.<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and\u00a0 formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition, was when \u201cthe Jews prevailed \u2014 and have done so ever since in four consecutive elections, including the last one in April 2019.\u201d<\/h5>\nTo illustrate this Pfeffer cites the 2012 Israeli\u00a0 High Court of Justice decision to deny a petition by writer Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/a> and others to allow themselves to be registered solely as \u2018Israelis\u2019 as opposed to \u2018Jews.\u2019<\/h5>\nEvery so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
In light of Finkelstein\u2019s observation, Likud focused its message on Jerusalem. Its campaign slogan was:\u00a0 \u201cPeres will divide Jerusalem.\u201d In the final 48 hours before Election Day there was also \u201can unofficial slogan, emblazoned on millions of posters and bumper stickers distributed by Chabad Hasidim: \u201cNetanyahu is good for the Jews.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn a Haaretz interview after his narrow 1996 defeat, Peres lamented that \u201cthe Israelis lost the election.\u201d When asked then who had won, he answered, \u201cThe Jews won.\u201d<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that Netanyahu learned from Finkelstein that the \u201cJew\u201d is the primary unifier for Israelis. This certainly applies to religious Jews but also to those who regard themselves as secular. After all, Israel has really been the \u201cJewish State\u201d for a while.<\/h5>\nThis is probably the right place to point out that Netanyahu\u2019s move of locating Jewishness at the heart of Israel is a reversal of the original Zionist promise. While early Zionism was a desperate attempt to divorce the Jews from the ghetto and their tribal obsession and make them \u201cpeople like all other people,\u201d the present adherence to Jewishness and kinship induces\u00a0 a return to Judeo-centric chauvinism. As odd as this may sound, Netanyahu\u2019s transformation of Israel into a \u2018Jewish realm\u2019 makes him an ardent anti Zionist probably more anti Zionist than JVP, Mondoweiss and the BDS together.<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and\u00a0 formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition, was when \u201cthe Jews prevailed \u2014 and have done so ever since in four consecutive elections, including the last one in April 2019.\u201d<\/h5>\nTo illustrate this Pfeffer cites the 2012 Israeli\u00a0 High Court of Justice decision to deny a petition by writer Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/a> and others to allow themselves to be registered solely as \u2018Israelis\u2019 as opposed to \u2018Jews.\u2019<\/h5>\nEvery so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
Pfeffer points out that Netanyahu learned from Finkelstein that the \u201cJew\u201d is the primary unifier for Israelis. This certainly applies to religious Jews but also to those who regard themselves as secular. After all, Israel has really been the \u201cJewish State\u201d for a while.<\/h5>\nThis is probably the right place to point out that Netanyahu\u2019s move of locating Jewishness at the heart of Israel is a reversal of the original Zionist promise. While early Zionism was a desperate attempt to divorce the Jews from the ghetto and their tribal obsession and make them \u201cpeople like all other people,\u201d the present adherence to Jewishness and kinship induces\u00a0 a return to Judeo-centric chauvinism. As odd as this may sound, Netanyahu\u2019s transformation of Israel into a \u2018Jewish realm\u2019 makes him an ardent anti Zionist probably more anti Zionist than JVP, Mondoweiss and the BDS together.<\/h5>\nPfeffer points out that when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and\u00a0 formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition, was when \u201cthe Jews prevailed \u2014 and have done so ever since in four consecutive elections, including the last one in April 2019.\u201d<\/h5>\nTo illustrate this Pfeffer cites the 2012 Israeli\u00a0 High Court of Justice decision to deny a petition by writer Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/a> and others to allow themselves to be registered solely as \u2018Israelis\u2019 as opposed to \u2018Jews.\u2019<\/h5>\nEvery so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
Pfeffer points out that when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and\u00a0 formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition, was when \u201cthe Jews prevailed \u2014 and have done so ever since in four consecutive elections, including the last one in April 2019.\u201d<\/h5>\nTo illustrate this Pfeffer cites the 2012 Israeli\u00a0 High Court of Justice decision to deny a petition by writer Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/a> and others to allow themselves to be registered solely as \u2018Israelis\u2019 as opposed to \u2018Jews.\u2019<\/h5>\nEvery so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
Every so often we hear from one Torah rabbi or another that \u201cZionism is not Judaism<\/span>.\u201d<\/a> Those who have reached this point surely grasp that \u2018Zionism vs. Judaism\u2019 is a fake dichotomy. It serves to confuse and to divert questioning minds from the path toward an understanding of the conflict: In Israel Zionism is an empty concept, politically, ideologically and spiritually. Israel defines itself as \u2018The Jewish state\u2019 and orthodox rabbis are at the centre of this transition in Israeli politics and life.<\/h5>\nI guess that Abunimah and JVP were desperate to silence me at the time as they foolishly believed that shooting the messenger or alternatively burning books was the way forward for human rights activism. I stood firm. The observations I produced in \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 were endorsed by the most profound thinkers associated<\/a><\/span> with the conflict and the anti war movement. My observations are more relevant than ever and in Israel they have entered mainstream analysis. When it comes to Palestine solidarity we have managed to waste a good two decades of intellectual progress thanks to authoritarian lobbies operating in our midst. For truth and justice to prevail, we have to learn to speak the truth as we see it, and to accept JVP and Abumimah\u2019s apologies when they are mature enough to come clean.<\/h5>\nMy battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
My battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><\/h5>\nScroll to the foot of the source page<\/span><\/a> to assist Gilad with a donation.<\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
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