Words of the Week: Yossi Klein Halevi
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Words of the Week/From My Bookshelf
This week, I’ll share a single sentence from a novel I’ve just finished reading:
(more…)Words of the Week: Yitzchak Blau
“Those groups that criticize Israel without ever praising it, criticizing the Palestinians, or putting Israel’s actions in context, add fuel to a corrupt fire.”
Source: Yitzchak Blau, “12 Falsehoods About the Israeli-Arab Conflict” (The Times of Israel blogs)
Words of the Week: Joshua Brook
“Respecting another people’s national memory should indeed evoke empathy, but it does not require wholesale adoption of their self-justifying narrative of blamelessness, nor accession to their maximalist political demands, particularly where those demands include national suicide. And Beinart’s implicit claim that only one party to this tragic conflict is due an historical reckoning is as unlikely to further the cause of peace and reconciliation as it is morally obtuse.”
Source: Joshua Brook, “Incoming! Watch Out, Peter Beinart Is Fighting the Good Fight (Again)” (Fathom)
Words of the Week: David Grossman (via Daniel Gordis)
First, read Daniel Gordis’s introduction.
Then, watch this clip from David Grossman’s exchange with students who had read his novel To the End of the Land.
(more…)Words of the Week: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
“This was a good book to read as I searched in my mind for other times that we cheer on terrorism except for when it’s happening to the Jews. This was a good book to read as the meme of asserting that the ‘questioning’ of Israel’s policies is not anti-Semitism morphed into something that was, by some parties, actually yes quite gleeful and strenuous anti-Semitism, until finally my sisters in Crown Heights began to beseech their male children to cover their yarmulkes with baseball caps and the world around me was heartbreakingly silent as Jews were cornered and threatened here in America for something going on very far away. This was a good book to read as my Jewish friends texted me that this would stop if we could just get Bibi out of power, and I wondered what they texted each other in 1935 as the streets in Europe overheated with pogrom energy and there was no Bibi and no Israel to blame.”
Source: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “The One About Bibi Netanyahu’s Father and the Perils of Diaspora” (New York Times Book Review)