Zionism

One Year from October 7th: A Liturgy of Suffering and a Lexicon of Antisemitism

On October 7th, 2024, we remember the latest episodes in the long history of violence against the Jewish people, and the continuing efforts by antisemites to deny their suffering

The “New” Antisemitism in America’s Universities 

Antisemitic protests have rocked college campuses across the United States. However, this “new,” antisemitism is a deep-rooted phenomenon within academia.

Two Jesuits and Israel: Robert Drinan and Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan, SJ, and Robert Drinan, SJ, were two of the most prominent American Jesuits ever, but on Israel they vociferously disagreed

Hamas and History

A striking feature of the news media coverage of the current Gaza war has been its failure to relate this present conflict to its historical context

Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch

Who was Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female leader?

The Coming Cyrus Accords?

Iranian–Israeli peace will be the contemporary Middle East’s most monumental development, and it is in sight.

Good News in Jewish-Christian Relations
Good News in Jewish-Christian Relations

Are Christian Zionists destroying Jewish-Christian relations? Are they imposing their own political agendas on delicate political negotiations between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and undermining them in the process? Are they causing a new nadir in Jewish relations with Christians?

On This Nakba Day, Palestinians Need New Leadership
On This Nakba Day, Palestinians Need New Leadership

Today, Nakba Day, marks 72 years since the 1948 war between the fledgling Jewish state and its Arab neighbors. But the most pressing issue for Palestinians today is not the existence of Israel. It is the absence of Palestinian leadership.

New York Times Ignores Silwan’s Jewish Origins

To the New York Times, Silwan is just another Palestinian village that the Zionist Settler Colonial Enterprise is undermining, literally. But the village has Jewish origins, and archeological discoveries there are important to both Jews and Christians.