{"id":553,"date":"2011-02-03T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/02\/how-to-kill-liberal-american-zionism.html"},"modified":"2011-02-03T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:00:00","slug":"how-to-kill-liberal-american-zionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/02\/how-to-kill-liberal-american-zionism.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Kill Liberal American Zionism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Last May Peter Beinart set off a small firestorm with an article in The New York Review of Books<\/i><\/a> that questioned the future of American Jewish support for Zionism:<\/p>\n

Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Jewish Zionists are liberal. \u2026For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism\u2019s door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This morning I had two reminders of how the Zionist establishment, both here and in Israel, are abandoning liberalism.\u00a0 The first came from news of this week\u2019s meeting between Mike Huckabee and Netanyahu, with special guest nutbag, John Voight.<\/p>\n

Voight, the sideshow clown, is a notorious \u201cChristian Zionist<\/a>\u201d and you can do your own search for the many mentions of his mental instability.<\/p>\n

Huckabee\u2019s a serious candidate for president whose vision for the region could just about kill any notion of a secular, democratic Israel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026Huckabee said Tuesday that if Palestinians want an independent state, they should seek it from Arabs \u2013 not Israel.<\/p>\n

The evangelical minister and Fox News host said Jews should be allowed to settle anywhere throughout the biblical Land of Israel \u2013 an area that includes the West Bank and east Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

He called the demand on Israel to give up land for peace an \u201cunrealistic, unworkable and unreachable goal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It should be obvious that watching these two galavanting around with Bibi will not rouse young liberal Jews to great feelings of love and support for Israel.<\/p>\n

The second reminder came when I opened my snail mail and received my invitation to the Miami Friends of the IDF\u2019s gala featuring fundamentalist preacher John Hagee.\u00a0 I have always been a supporter of the Friends of the IDF.\u00a0 It\u2019s an apolitical organization that provides USO-style services for kids serving in Israel\u2019s army.<\/p>\n

Now, sadly, with this event it has joined the ranks of the illiberal Zionist organizations by getting all lovey-dovey with one of the most intolerant voices in America.\u00a0 Just because he has a crush on Israel\u2026a crush based on his apocalyptic end times theology.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent a significant amount of my career on Zionist education and creating connections between Israelis and Americans.\u00a0 The Israel that I shared with my students and community is a place of tolerance and openness.\u00a0 It is the Israel of freedom, justice, peace\u00a0 and complete equality described in its own Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

The next time someone in the American Jewish establishment bewails the disappearance of Zionism among young liberal Jews, just recall Huckabee, Voight and Hagee.\u00a0 For many young Jews today, they are the faces of support for Israel.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last May Peter Beinart set off a small firestorm with an article in The New York Review of Books that questioned the future of American Jewish support for Zionism: Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Jewish Zionists are liberal. \u2026For several decades, the Jewish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,12,20],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-american-jews","tag-fundamentalist-christianity","tag-israel"],"yoast_head":"\nHow To Kill Liberal American Zionism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last May Peter Beinart set off a small firestorm with an article in The New York Review of Books that questioned the future of American Jewish support for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/02\/how-to-kill-liberal-american-zionism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How To Kill Liberal American Zionism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last May Peter Beinart set off a small firestorm with an article in The New York Review of Books that questioned the future of American Jewish support for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/02\/how-to-kill-liberal-american-zionism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Atheist Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-02-03T19:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeffrey L. 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