Is Netanyahu distorting the Zionist dream?

Published: 31 August 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Something is terribly wrong when the leader of the State of Israel can no longer distinguish between antisemitism, opposition to Israel and disagreement with the policies of his government.

Distorting the vision of a Jewish state (Times of Israel)
NAOMI CHAZAN argues that something is terribly wrong when the leader of the State of Israel can no longer distinguish between antisemitism, opposition to Israel and disagreement with the policies of his government. By persistently and cynically sowing conceptual confusion, he is not only undermining the very foundations of the Zionist dream, he is unraveling the normative bonds that unite the Jewish people to each other and to all human beings throughout the world (Aug 28)

Is Israel’s government anti-Semitic? (Haaretz)
YEHUDA BAUER, leading holocaust scholar, argues that when it comes to its treatment of liberal Jews in the United States and Israel, it may well be (Aug 30)

Netanyahu assails Israel's 'fake news industry' to thousands of supporters (Haaretz)
In second such rally this month, Netanyahu condemns the 'unfairness of the industry of gloom' (Aug 30)

Photo: Jewish activists protest against the Orthodox monopoly over religious rites at Western Wall in Jerusalem, January 2017. The signs says "Bibi, I'm also Jewish" and “Bibi, don’t divide the Jewish nation” (RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)