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The Un-Jews

JL;DR SUMMARY Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy analyze a growing trend among American Jews who reject Zionism and Israel, highlighting the historical phenomenon of 'un-Jews,' individuals who distance their Jewish identity from the state of Israel and Jewish nationalism. 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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IdentityZionismJewish LeadershipAmerican JewsAnti ZionismProgressivismJewish SolidarityColonialismCommunism

Places mentioned

Israel
"In May, when Israelis were attacked by Hamas missiles from Gaza, the criticism from some voices within the American Jewish community seemed not only more intense but categorical, escalating very quickly from what Israel did to what Israel is."
New York, United States
"...while the CUNY Jewish Law Students Association more concisely demanded a Palestinian right to return, a free and just Palestine from the river to the sea, and an end to the ongoing Nakba."
United States
"...dozens of Jewish and Israel studies scholars defined Zionism as a diverse set of linked ethnonationalist ideologies shaped by settler colonial paradigms...."
Germany
"One archetypal such Jewish radical was the German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg."
Russian Federation
"As Soviet communism turned more repressive after the Bolshevik Revolution, it naturally recruited un-Jews to torment their former co-religionists."
Egypt
"What we do know is that despite his Jewish roots, he was anxious to help the world become civilized like Romeand he unleashed the Roman legions against Alexandrias Jews when he was prefect of Egypt from 66 to 69 CE."

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