{"id":24291,"date":"2011-04-14T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=24291"},"modified":"2011-04-16T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T06:35:18","slug":"let-us-talk-about-jewishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=24291","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Talk About Jewishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk April 14, 2011<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">One of the main differences between my work and and the writings of other humanists within the peace movement is that I am willing to move beyond the political discussion \u2013 I dig into the ideological and philosophical roots of the Jewish state, Jewish politics and Jewish identity politics.\u00a0 I look into the meaning of &#8216;Jewishness.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">In my work I clearly identify a continuum between Israel and &#8216;Jewish ideology&#8217; (&#8216;Jewishness&#8217;). And since Israel defines itself as the Jewish State, then surely \u2013 we must be brave enough to question what Jewishness stands for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">And clearly, Israelis are proud about their Jewishness \u2013 They are far from being shy about it all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">In the following video Judeo-Centric Israeli Law Professor Ruth Gavison spreads some Jewish Tribal ideas at AIPAC conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GrpClg2Tn4A\">Ruth Gavison on Israel&#8217;s Future as a Jewish State -Shalom TV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">If you fail to understand what motivates the Israeli pilots\u00a0to drop bombs on civilians from aeroplanes decorated with Jewish symbols, law professor Gavison provides the answer;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u201cIsrael will do whatever it takes to remain a Jewish state for as long as it takes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">If you ask yourself, how\u00a0is it that 94% of\u00a0Israeli Jews supported the IDF genocidal measures at the time of Operation Cast Lead, then Gavison may have some insights to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u201cThe Jewishness of Israel is the meaning of which the state of Israel is enabling Jews for the first time in many years, to take control of all aspects of their lives\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">They certainly do: Israeli brutality is beyond comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Gavison concludes, \u201cIsrael is the place where Jewish and Hebrew culture is the majority culture; this is the meaning of the Jewishness of Israel\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">We have to agree with the Law Professor \u2013\u00a0Hebrew culture is, indeed, a majority culture in Israel \u2013 because the\u00a0 indigenous people of the land\u00a0 are locked behind walls in open air prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">If Israel is the meaning of Jewishness, and vice versa, Jews do have a serious ethical problem to deal with.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/gilad-atzmon-let-us-talk-about-jewishness.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Israel is the meaning of Jewishness, and vice versa, Jews do have a serious ethical problem to deal with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24291"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24407,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291\/revisions\/24407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}