Recommendations from CIESJ

Opinions & Analyses

• Fania Oz-Salzberger: Some settlers have become full-fledged terrorists. Their acts are anti-Jewish
  Surging attacks and state inaction threaten Israel’s moral core, raising urgent calls for political and societal change
• Michael J. Koplow: Judge the Iran War Entirely by the Nuclear Outcome Trump may be gearing up to manufacture a declared victory, or to escalate further.
  Either way, the most important part of the Iran conflict cannot be ignored, which is the nuclear component.
• Rabbi Noa Sattath, head of ACRI, Association for Civil Rights Israel. Connect the World: On the Death penalty for terrorists.
• Dahlia Scheindlin: Fake News! Don’t Buy the Israeli Right’s Sudden Concern for Settler Violence
  There’s been a highly unusual flood of condemnations of settler violence against Palestinians, from rabbis to pundits to politicians. But don’t confuse their statements with real cracks in Israel’s iron wall of support for settlements, expulsion and annexation
• Jonathan Lis: Netanyahu Set Three Goals for the War in Iran. He Didn’t Achieve Any of Them
  The terms underpinning the newly established cease-fire could strengthen the current Iranian regime and limit Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah, raising questions about whether Netanyahu’s objectives were achieved
• Amos Harel: Israel Botched the Iran War – and Shattered Its Standing in the U.S.
  After Trump’s cease-fire, the results of the Iran war are bleak for Israel and Netanyahu: the regime endures, hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium remain, and the missile program is still active. The Hezbollah front in Lebanon continues to rage.
• David Horowitz: US and Israel set out ambitious, vital war goals; as of the ceasefire, none have been achieved 
  Fighting halts with the US president hailing what is only a tactical victory, and impossibly expecting a deal in two weeks to impose terms on the weakened but emboldened Iranian regime
• Ezra Klein: Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’

J Street and Funding of Israeli Military

• Jeremy Ben-Ami” From Subsidy to Accountability – The Next Phase of the U.S.-Israel Security Relationship
  A bipartisan consensus is emerging to end unconditional taxpayer subsidies for Israel’s military and to enforce U.S. law on the use of American weapons.
• Jacob Kornbluh: J Street says Israel should fund its own defense
  The move coincides with a push by progressive Democrats push to restrict or end U.S. military aid, including Iron Dome missile interception

Discussion of Bundist lessons based on Molly Crabapple new book

• Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
  Written and Illustrated by Molly Crabapple
• Max Strasser: Review: Molly Crabapple’s “Here Where We Live Is Our Country”
  What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism? In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.
• Ishan Desai-Geller: The Enduring Lessons of the Jewish Bund
  A conversation with Molly Crabapple about Here Where We Live Is Our Country, her capacious history of Bundism and what we can learn from their socialist and anti-Zionist example.
• Jo-Ann Mort: The Problem with the Bund
  I Prefer My Jewish Culture Alive and Flourishing
• David Hirsh: Book Review: Rebels Against Zion
• Gershom Gorenberg: Jewish Anti-Zionists, Check Your Privilege
  It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.

Mahmoud Khalil Interview and Commentary

• Arno Rosenfeld: Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure you
  The Columbia protest leader on Hamas, Zionism and why Jews shouldn’t fear a ‘free Palestine’
• U.S. Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil: ‘The Jewish People Are Part of the Land’
  The Columbia protest leader on Hamas, Zionism and why Jews shouldn’t fear a ‘free Palestine’
• Zach Iscol: Mahmoud Khalil’s reassurances are bad for Jews but even worse for Palestinians
  History shows the path pursued by the campus activist leader results in perpetual misery
• Nadav Ziv: Mahmoud Khalil’s anti-Zionist case to Jews shows the case for skepticism
  His recent interview with the Forward illustrates ongoing failures within the pro-Palestinian movement