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“Whatever the Left touches it ruins” [Dennis Prager, April 10, 2018].
Fouad Ajami, a renowned scholar of Arab history and governments, who led the Middle East Studies program at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C., for more than 30 years, died of cancer on June 23, 2014 at the age of 68.
Opinion: The four health funds are a modern manifestation of the Jewish tradition of responsibility to its weakest members that began centuries ago, and was imported into the emerging nation and we must protect them at all costs
כסף (ממון) וכלים בתל אביב
It went like this. I tried the pseudointellectual approach to Zionism. I was exploring. Ultimately, I was none the happier. Both institutions, I found, are not built on the witty ponderings of the outsider or individualist, but upon the reckonings and sociological movement of the family. The Israel of today is not a Socialist Utopia like the visions of Labor Zionism in the works of Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl (1860-1904) and before him, Moses (Moshe) Hess (1812-1875). That is to say, the Herzlian ideals promised to the Jewish immigrant to Palestine, roughly a century and a half ago, seem to have gotten lost amidst years of inevitable changes, all of which, alas, futile.
Literature table at the 2019 DSA national convention (Photo: Democratic Socialists of America)
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction was just published by Haymarket Books. The collection (which includes essays from Shireen Akram-Boshar, Omar Barghouti, Nada Elia, and others) argues that Palestine should be viewed as an important part socialism and socialism should be viewed as an important part of Palestinian liberation.
“This collection is a poignant and incisive engagement with the past, and possible future, role of the Left in the struggle for justice in Palestine,” writes historian Ilan Pappé. “From critical analysis of organizational matters to the very complex issues of gender and secularism, this book is a must read for anyone whose socialism has brought them to care and act on behalf of Palestine and the Palestinians. As a Left, we are at a crucial juncture of strategic contemplation in general and on Palestine in particular. This book offers ways forward that c