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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Zionism

Lizzy Savetsky wears a Star of David top ahead of the United Jewish Appeal Generosity Gala in New York City, March 14, 2024. (Courtesy)
February 26, 2025, 11:02 am
Pro-Israel influencer Lizzy Savetsky praises Meir Kahane clip, setting off firestorm
Other pro-Israel voices condemn normalization of extremist rabbi who urged expulsion of Arabs, while calls for mass transfers of Palestinians have moved into the mainstream
By Ben Sales
Prof. Derek Penslar, right, and Prof. Magda Teter, Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and professor of history at Fordham University speak during a panel at Harvard Yard, December 10, 2024. (Courtesy)
January 15, 2025, 4:57 am
Harvard antisemitism task force co-chair talks about post-Oct. 7 ‘petrified anger’
Prof. Derek Penslar recently spoke at the Divinity School about his book ‘Zionism: An Emotional State,’ and the passions motivating Zionists and anti-Zionists, now and in the past
By Rich Tenorio
Inset from 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,' published in May 2024. (courtesy)
November 27, 2024, 8:10 am
Israel’s 1st president disdained European Jews, ‘but he was ready to die for them’
Two historians co-author intimate portrait of fallible leader, born exactly 150 years ago, with new details on Chaim Weizmann’s struggles after losing his RAF pilot son in WWII
By Matt Lebovic
Mahatma Gandhi in a photo from a period album collected by AP reporter James A. Mills, circa 1931. (AP Photo/James A. Mills)
November 16, 2024, 9:02 am
Just after Kristallnacht, Gandhi said Jews should die with joy. What would he say now?
Numerous comments on the Holocaust by the renowned Indian leader who favored nonviolence have been misunderstood, say experts — but what about his aversion to Zionism?
By Zack Rothbart
Member of the executive committee of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Aydan Özoguz arrives for talks at the party headquarters in Berlin on June 03, 2019. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
October 20, 2024, 3:11 pm
German MP from Scholz’s party apologizes for sharing post accusing Israel of genocide
Aydan Ozoguz says post, which also included unverified claims about recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza, ‘hurt the feelings of fellow citizens who stand up for peaceful coexistence’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Author Haim Be'er at his home in Ramat Gan, October 6, 2024. (Tamar Mor Sela)
October 20, 2024, 7:05 am
Haim Be’er believes, in perfect faith, that change is coming for Israel, but it may tarry
Despite eulogizing Zionism, the 79-year-old literary icon urges public to transcend social divides between right and left, religious and secular, and acknowledge limitations of power
By Tamar Mor Sela
Anti-Israel students and activists hold a banner as they protest the Israel-Hamas war on the campus of New York University (NYU) in New York on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Alex Kent / AFP)
August 24, 2024, 5:43 am
NYU issues hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting ‘Zionists’
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists claim targeting Zionists isn’t antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists; new policy shows school disagrees, given that most Jews do
By Andrew Lapin
Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)
August 4, 2024, 6:23 am
Know thine enemy: When the PLO hosted 80 scholars at a Beirut Israel studies center
Historian Jonathan Marc Gribetz’s ‘Reading Herzl in Beirut’ excavates a forgotten decades-long PLO research center that helped shift some Palestinians’ thinking regarding Israel
By Matt Lebovic
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) laughs with Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joe Biden (R), during a meeting at the US Capitol, June 11, 2002. (STEPHEN JAFFE / AFP)
July 22, 2024, 8:02 am
Biden withdrawal marks end of era of Democrat presidents with personal Israel attachment
Throughout his political career, the US president has considered himself a Zionist and expressed unwavering support for Israel, no longer mainstream views in his party
By Ron Kampeas
US President Joe Biden during an interview with journalist Speedy Morman (not in picture) on '360 with Speedy,' broadcast July 15, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/Complex, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 16, 2024, 12:23 pm
Biden stands by identification as a Zionist: ‘Israel is a safe haven for Jews’
US president doubles down on reelection bid, gives unprecedented detail on Saudi normalization effort; regrets telling donors ‘it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye’
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies
Books about Jews arriving and living in Shanghai in the late 1930s displayed at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on May 7, 2013. (Peter Parks/AFP)
June 29, 2024, 7:12 am
How a Brooklyn dentist almost formed a Jewish homeland in pre-WW II China
Seeing a land free of antisemitism, Albert Einstein and Chinese leaders pushed plans to settle 100,000 Jews fleeing Nazis in Yunnan, the Himalayan foothills of China’s hinterland
By Harry Saunders
Draped in an Israeli flag, Elinor Ben David, left, hugs her daughter Liel Abissidan, 8, as they wait for a rally in support of Israel to start, at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, October 10, 2023, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)
November 3, 2023, 11:00 am
For South Florida’s Jews, Biden’s handling of Israel-Hamas war is a political test
Inside the Republican stronghold, the Jewish community finds unexpected comfort in support for Israel from US president
By Agencies
Large crowds of pro-Israel demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square, London, October 22, 2023, demanding the release of all hostages abducted from Israel to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
October 22, 2023, 10:05 pm
Large crowds in London, Berlin, demand release of hostages, denounce Hamas evil
British Chief Rabbi Mirvis says that out of the 2 sides to the war, ‘one is good, and the other is evil’; pro-Palestinian rallies held in Paris, Brussels and other locations
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Participants in the September 20, 2023 webinar (L-R) Prof. Gil Troy, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh and former United States ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Times of Israel/Courtesy/Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 22, 2023, 9:49 am
What Matters Now to David Friedman, Michal Cotler-Wunsh and Gil Troy: Nuance
A playback of this week’s webinar, ‘Diaspora Jews & Israel’s judicial overhaul: Differing stances,’ explores whether global Jewry should play a role in Israel’s current crisis
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP/Susan Walsh)
September 21, 2023, 6:52 pm
Prominent Zionists laud Biden’s remark that no Jew anywhere is safe without Israel
Abe Foxman, Natan Sharansky and Dani Dayan say president’s unprecedented statement shows understanding of how most Jews feel, though it angers some Jews more critical of Israel
By Canaan Lidor
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