Common Grounds

When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy

July 22, 2019 14:08
Source: +972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/will-imagining-zionism-without-supremacy/142415/

By Meron Rapoport

Published July 21, 2019

In his recent book, Dr. Dmitry Shumsky shows that, contrary to popular belief, the forefathers of Zionism did not envision a state based on Jewish supremacy. And yet Zionism, he says, inevitably involves the oppression of Palestinians.
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It Started Out So Good …

July 24, 2019 12:03
By Abraham A. van Kempen

The Hague, The Netherlands

Israeli journalist, Meron Rapoport, states in his article, ‘When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy:’

“In his recent book [‘Beyond the Nation-State’], Dr. Dmitry Shumsky [a historian of the Zionist movement at the Hebrew University] shows that, contrary to popular belief, the forefathers of Zionism did not envision a state based on Jewish supremacy. And yet Zionism, he says, inevitably involves the oppression of Palestinians.”
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The Abuse of Religion to Foster Extremism Is a Universal Phenomenon

July 31, 2019 15:06
Source: Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/29/abuse-religion-foster-extremism-universal-phenomenon

By James Zogby

Published July 29, 2019

When it masks a political agenda or when it justifies violence either by groups or state actors, it becomes a danger
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Evangelicals aren’t turned off by Trump’s first term — they’re delighted by it

August 14, 2019 10:57
Source: Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/evangelicals-arent-turned-off-by-trumps-first-term--theyre-delighted-by-it/2019/08/11/3911bc88-a990-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?noredirect=on

By Julie Zauzmer
Published August 13, 2019

BRANDON, Fla. — Three years ago, Rickey Halbert was torn about whether to vote for Donald Trump.

On the one hand, he’d read about Trump’s extramarital affairs and the women who alleged he had sexually assaulted them. Halbert, a Defense Department employee, didn’t think the candidate matched his moral compass.
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Setting The Record Straight On Christian Zionism

September 16, 2019 12:58
Source: Forward

https://forward.com/culture/430428/setting-the-record-straight-on-christian-zionism/

By Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon

Publsished August 29, 2019

The book review for “Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, And U.S.-Israeli Relations” entitled “Why Everything You Think You Know About Christian Zionism is Wrong” grossly misstated numerous aspects of Christian Zionism and the movement in America. The narrative that Raphael Magarik puts forth seeks to debunk the idea that: “Christian Zionism conceals under a cloak of philo-Semitism, a nefarious agenda. Christian Zionists support Israel, supposedly, to hasten the end-times, when “Jews must convert or die.”
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Katanacho and the Protestant struggle against ‘Israelism’

October 10, 2019 17:06
By: Abraham A. van Kempen

This article is a translated and slightly revised version of a contribution by Dr. Steven Paas to a symposium of the Dutch branch of Kairos-Sabeel on 20 September 2019, at the occasion of the presentation of the Dutch translation of the Palestinian theologian Yohanna Katanacho’s book The Land of Christ.
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Can You Trust God to Let the Chips Fall Where He wants?

October 15, 2019 13:51
By: Abraham A. van Kempen

1. Many Evangelicals presume that peace in Israel-Palestine will never happen unless Jesus Christ, God in the Flesh, ruptures through the clouds, detonating his divine light, between the heavens and earth, his Second Coming.
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Making the Means, Methods and Mechanism for MANY to Move Mountains …

September 04, 2015 11:09
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-dignify-or-to-destroy/

Published SEP 3, 2018

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