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It’s impossible to be an ’anti-Zionist Jew.’

JL;DR SUMMARY Joshua Hoffman argues in this piece that being an anti-Zionist Jew is inherently contradictory, as Zionism and Judaism are historically and inextricably linked. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureJewish HistoryJewish IdentityZionismAnti ZionismJewish SolidarityHannah Einbinder

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Every Jew in the world faces Israel when we pray. Our holiest holidays revolve around Jerusalem."
Tiberias, Northern District, Israel
"For 2,000 years, there were always Jewish communities in Tiberias, Safed, Hebron, and Jerusalem."
Safed, Northern District, Israel
"For 2,000 years, there were always Jewish communities in Tiberias, Safed, Hebron, and Jerusalem."
Hebron, Jerusalem, Israel
"For 2,000 years, there were always Jewish communities in Tiberias, Safed, Hebron, and Jerusalem."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"a civilization stretching from Sinai to Safed, from Babylon to Brooklyn, from the Psalms to the IDF, from Davids harp to the Hebrew start-up nation."
Paris, France
"The Molotov cocktails thrown at synagogues in Paris, the gunmen storming a Pittsburgh shul, the mobs surrounding Jewish neighborhoods in London"
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"The Molotov cocktails thrown at synagogues in Paris, the gunmen storming a Pittsburgh shul, the mobs surrounding Jewish neighborhoods in London"
London, United Kingdom
"The Molotov cocktails thrown at synagogues in Paris, the gunmen storming a Pittsburgh shul, the mobs surrounding Jewish neighborhoods in London"

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