#zukerman — Public Fediverse posts

You should not forget Tchaikovsky wrote wonderful chamber music. Here we have a piano trio in a minor, opus 50. Note both Barenboim and Jacqueline de Pre together here with Zukerman as well. #classicalmusic #tchaikovsky #dupre #barenboim #zukerman

You should not forget Tchaikovsky wrote wonderful chamber music. Here we have a piano trio in a minor, opus 50. Note both Barenboim and Jacqueline de Pre together here with Zukerman as well. #classicalmusic #tchaikovsky #dupre #barenboim #zukerman

You should not forget Tchaikovsky wrote wonderful chamber music. Here we have a piano trio in a minor, opus 50. Note both Barenboim and Jacqueline de Pre together here with Zukerman as well. #classicalmusic #tchaikovsky #dupre #barenboim #zukerman

You should not forget Tchaikovsky wrote wonderful chamber music. Here we have a piano trio in a minor, opus 50. Note both Barenboim and Jacqueline de Pre together here with Zukerman as well. #classicalmusic #tchaikovsky #dupre #barenboim #zukerman

You should not forget Tchaikovsky wrote wonderful chamber music. Here we have a piano trio in a minor, opus 50. Note both Barenboim and Jacqueline de Pre together here with Zukerman as well. #classicalmusic #tchaikovsky #dupre #barenboim #zukerman

Jewish critics of Zionism have clashed with American Jewish leaders for decades

Since October 2023, American Jews have been engaged in an intense, fractious debate over Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.
Media reports say that American Jews are experiencing “the great rupture,” widening “rifts,” and stand at a “moral, political crossroads.”

While most American Jews remain broadly supportive of Israel, others have protested vigorously against U.S. support for Israel and are demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war.
They carry signs saying “Not in Our Name.”

Their slogan highlights the fact that American foreign aid to Israel has long relied on the support of American Jews. Unqualified U.S. support for Israel was built, in part, on the promise that Israel kept American Jews – and all Jews – safe, especially after the Holocaust.

But American Jews have never been entirely unified in their support for Israel or in their visions of what role Israel and Palestine should play in American Jewish life.

Across the 20th century, mainstream Jewish leaders manufactured an American Jewish so-called consensus on Zionism and Israel, in part by silencing American Jewish critics of Zionism.

From the late 1940s through 1961, journalist #William #Zukerman edited The Jewish Newsletter,
a publication that captured some of the voices of Jewish dissent from Zionism,
including his own.

He reported on Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians and documented how American Jewish funds fueled Israel’s military campaigns instead of supporting vibrant American Jewish communities.

Because Zukerman dared to publish this criticism, he faced campaigns of steep resistance, eventually losing funding and support from Jewish communal organizations.

Anxious that Zukerman’s dissent would cause “increasing trouble” for American support for Israel, Israeli diplomats wrote to American Jewish leaders, and together they convinced some Jewish journalists to exclude Zukerman’s writings from their publications.

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In the current moment, college campuses have been riven with debates over the boundaries between student safety and free speech and whether criticism of Israel constitutes antisemitism.

Young Jews dismayed by the unconditional Zionist agenda of Jewish campus organization Hillel and who founded Open Hillel in 2013 are now active in Gaza protests as “Judaism on Our Own Terms.”

They might be surprised to learn that in late 1972, even before his course began, Blatt and others founded the Tufts Hillel Non-Zionist Caucus.
Hillel subsequently expelled them from the organization.

For over a century, some American Jews have modeled the idea that unqualified support for Israel and Zionism was “not in our name.”

They prioritized justice as a Jewish value and were motivated not by self-hatred or antisemitism but by abiding commitments to human rights and to Jewish safety and community.

Today’s activists protesting over the devastation in Gaza are testing the threshold of dissent and the limits of free speech and academic freedom.

They embrace what they view as more just visions of Israel and Palestine and more inclusive visions of an American Jewish community,
one with space for dissent and earnest conversations about Israel and Zionism,
and one in which Jews stand in solidarity with groups working for justice in Palestine, Israel and around the world.
https://theconversation.com/jewish-critics-of-zionism-have-clashed-with-american-jewish-leaders-for-decades-230374