{"id":19218,"date":"2024-10-02T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/?p=19218"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:07:16","slug":"zionism-after-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/zionism-after-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Zionism After October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Cataclysmic events challenge us to reset, reframe and reclaim. Even those of us who didn\u2019t need October 7 to discover the evil perverting a great degree of Palestinian nationalism were so shaken by the Hamas horrors that it forced us to reexamine our lives and worldviews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Similarly, the profound Jewish New Year process invites us to look in the mirror, update perspectives and change anything there we don\u2019t want to see.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oct. 7 blew up three false contradictions distorting today\u2019s Jewish conversation.<\/p>\n<p>First, as antisemitism surged, it showed the absurdity of American Jews debating whether right-wing Jew-hatred or left-wing Jew-hatred is worse. Let\u2019s have moral clarity: bigotry is bigotry. We need zero tolerance for intolerance. Right-wingers, including Donald Trump voters grateful for Republicans\u2019 enthusiastic Israel support, should police their white supremacist right-wing allies. Similarly left-wingers, including Democrats gaga over Kamala, should police their Israel-bashing progressive allies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Second, as Jew-haters and Zionophobes egged each other on, in Israel and globally, they confirmed that anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism. Both poisons reinforce each other. Finally, and perhaps most relevant as we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, an inspiring, positive message shined through this dark year: Zionism and Judaism are more intertwined than ever.<\/p>\n<p>This is the essential message of my new book: \u201cTo Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream.\u201d I\u2019m not na\u00efve. The first part of the title acknowledges that we have enemies. Outrageously, being proud Jews and Zionists today too frequently takes courage. It\u2019s a form of resistance \u2014 especially on too many campuses.<\/p>\n<p>But as I keep telling my students and everyone else, our resistance generates epic dividends. You get to participate in one of the world\u2019s great adventures, the ongoing escapades of the Jewish people \u2014 and now the State of Israel. \u201cDefending the Zionist Dream\u201d involves celebrating Israel, Judaism, Jewish nationalism and the Jewish people. The phrase \u201cthe Zionist Dream\u201d consciously evokes \u201cthe American Dream\u201d because my letters toast Americanism and liberalism too.<\/p>\n<p>I use my life story, and my generation\u2019s life stories, to defend Zionism, Americanism and liberalism. I argue that what\u2019s happening in too many, though not all, universities violated academia\u2019s core mission and values. When illiberal liberals dominate, they destroy many shared values linking America and Israel at their best.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why being Zionist and Jewish today is delightfully countercultural. It\u2019s tapping into the power of forever in our age of instant and disposable. It\u2019s embracing a culture of \u201cus\u201d despite so many obsessed with the \u201cI.\u201d It involves \u201cuncool\u201d but soul-stirring phenomena like faith, loyalty, trust, patriotism, nationalism, connectedness and character. Or, as my teacher and friend Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes in his new book, standing up with the Jewish people, living the eternal teachings of Judaism and Zionism, dancing through the raindrops with Israel, is indeed \u201cThe Triumph of Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe choice to be a Jew is an act of faith and courage,\u201d Greenberg writes in his monumental \u201cNarrative Theology of Judaism.\u201d All of us, who today are Jews-by-choice consciously choosing not to assimilate away, commit to \u201cshare Jewish fate.\u201d But he too appreciates the mind-blowing, soul-expanding, life-fulfilling payoff: \u201cMost active Jews would testify that the substance of commitment is a rich and fulfilling life, embedded in family and community and connected to a higher purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg worked on this, his magnum opus, for years. But, as with so many Zionist ideas, his vision has extra resonance after Oct. 7.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even as I celebrate the positive with Greenberg, three negative reference groups reinforce our death-defying Jewish Zionism. First, our Jihadist enemies \u2014 Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Iranian Revolutionary killers, their bloodthirsty proxies \u2014 belong to death-cults. They define themselves by what they hate: Us, meaning Judaism, Zionism, Americanism and liberalism \u2014 lower-case \u201cl\u201d as in liberal democracy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their noxious nihilism pervades the Houthi slogan: \u201cGod Is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam.\u201d Note how hatred is cemented in their ideology, their identity. By contrast, we sing \u201cHatikvah\u201d the hope, ever-seeking \u201cthe dawn\u2019s early light.\u201d Our nationalism builds us up, without knocking others down. And on Rosh Hashanah we eat apples and honey, wishing everyone a happy, healthy, peaceful New Year, with sweetness and love, while refining our dreams for a better life and world.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, wander the university encampments, pass pro-Palestinian protests menacing passersby downtown, hear the blood-curdling cries endorsing terrorist mass murder to \u201cGlobalize the Intifada.\u201d Note how these goons threaten fellow students and colleagues with death or harass them personally. They show no empathy for classmates, neighbors, students. Hate breeds hate. These Academic Intifadists idealize murderers, rapists, kidnappers. The Jihadist toxicity they cheer poisons their souls too.<\/p>\n<p>In their negative vortex, these un-Jews, undoing the core consensus linking Judaism and Zionism, become walking advertisements for what they\u2019ve repudiated. Their negativity proves how fulfilling Judaism and Zionism can be. And don\u2019t just listen to my letters to my students \u2014 Listen to our students. As 540 Columbia University students proclaimed this summer: Some \u201cJewish peers \u2026 tokenize themselves by claiming to represent \u2018real Jewish values,\u2019 and attempt to delegitimize <i>our<\/i> lived experiences of antisemitism.\u201d By contrast, these Ivy League Zionists \u201cproudly believe in the Jewish People\u2019s right to self-determination in our historic homeland as a fundamental tenet of our Jewish identity. Contrary to what many have tried to sell you \u2014 no, Judaism cannot be separated from Israel. Zionism is, simply put, the manifestation of that belief.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And if you doubt how quintessentially Jewish Zionism is, imagine banning Israel from our High Holy Day celebrations. It would create an unfamiliar Yom Kippur, if you cannot recall the High Priests\u2019 atonement in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. It would mean no lulav and etrog, which evoke our ancestors\u2019 harvest in the Land of Israel, and subsequent Jerusalem pilgrimage. And it would require skipping many words in the prayers, Torah readings and Haftorahs. In fact, it would sap the essence of modern Judaism, extinguishing empathy for nearly half our Jewish family who live in Israel and are fighting for our existence too.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, all this Zionist feeling and meaning and hope doesn\u2019t come easy. We\u2019ve lost so many lives and limbs. We live amid so many traumatized souls. We miss dozens of hostages observing these High Holidays in Hamas hell. This past year, especially as I wrote and taught, I kept returning to the texts by Zionist thinkers that were included in my edited collection, \u201cThe Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland \u2013 Then, Now, Tomorrow.\u201d Day-by-day, they guided, reassured, and roused me.<\/p>\n<p>The first Zionist text I thought of following Oct. 7 was Gershon Shaked\u2019s 1980 \u201cNo Other Place.\u201d Throbbing with agony, Shaked recalls how, on Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazi hooligans looted his parents\u2019 apartment in Vienna, then did unspeakable things to his nine-year-old self. Like the Jewish people, Shaked, who won the 1993 Israel Prize for his literary criticism, did not just survive \u2014 he thrived. He understood the Jews\u2019 \u201csecret weapon,\u201d which Joe Biden learned from Golda Meir: \u201cWe have no place else to go.\u201d But Shaked also neutralized his \u201cambivalences,\u201d realizing, as we must today, that our \u201ccommitment must be unequivocal.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shaked\u2019s weary but muscular phrase <i>\u201cEin makom acher\u201d <\/i>(There\u2019s no other place) echoed the Zionist pioneer Joseph Hayyim Brenner. Born in Ukraine in 1881, slaughtered by marauding Arabs near Tel Aviv in 1921, Brenner wrote, \u201cit is very possible, that here it is impossible to live, but here we must remain, here we must die, sleep \u2026 there is no other place.\u201d Recognizing Zionism as a national and individual reclamation project, Brenner proclaimed: \u201cWe have to start all over again, to lay down a new cornerstone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeling from Jewish history\u2019s bloodiest day since the Holocaust, Hayyim Nahman Bialik\u2019s 1903 poem evoking the Kishinev Pogroms, \u201cThe City of Slaughter\u201d kept echoing: \u201cBehold on tree, on stone, on fence, on mural clay \/ The splattered blood, and dried brains of the dead.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, on Nov. 1, after watching Israel\u2019s 46-minute video depicting the rampage, Charles Lane devoted half his Washington Post column to reprinting Bialik\u2019s lament. Lane explained that too many Palestinians\u2019 \u201covert pleasure-taking in Jew-killing inflames a sensitive place within the emotional centers of every Israeli and Jewish mind.\u201d Such Jew-hating glee evokes Holocaust, pogrom, inquisitions, the flaying of rabbis\u2019 skins, the destruction of two temples, all resonating in that searing poem.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the texts, the images, the wails, haunting me those first awful days. On Wednesday, Oct. 11, even more depressed, despairing, lost, I attended the funeral of a beautiful 22-year-old soul, Ben Mizrachi, a friend of my son and of our entire family, from Vancouver. Ben moved to Israel, full of idealism and a love for life, only to be slaughtered at the Nova music festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope he\u2019s dead,\u201d my son had sighed on Monday, fearing what those sadists might be doing to his friend, who had served as a combat medic, if they kidnapped him. When we heard about his death on Tuesday, we didn\u2019t want to know how he died. Who wanted to know if their paragliders of death shot him or the invading sadists maimed his body. We only wanted to honor how he lived.<\/p>\n<p>Then, that Wednesday, the first eulogy at Ben\u2019s funeral changed everything. He and his friend Itai Bausi, a Duvdevan commando, had run back toward the bullets, at least three times. Commandeering a golf cart, they ferried some wounded revelers to the medical tent, while treating others. Eventually, we saw the last photo of Ben, snatched from a video, crouching behind a car, a medical kit on his bag, primed to help.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the blue-and-white switch flipped back on in my head. Zionism never promised a rose garden, only our own, often-embattled, Promised Land. In 1947, as Zionists agonized over the U.N.\u2019s Nov. 29 Partition Plan shrinking the Jewish homeland and internationalizing Jerusalem, Chaim Weizmann warned: \u201cThe State will not be given to the Jewish people on a silver platter.\u201d That phrase inspired Natan Alterman\u2019s classic poem <i>\u201cMagash HaKesef,\u201d<\/i> \u201cThe Silver Platter,\u201d wherein \u201cthe nation arises, heartbroken but breathing\/To receive the miracle, the only one, there is no other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly foreshadowing funeral after funeral, a photograph of one beaming face with everything to live for reduced to a memorial book after another, Altman writes: \u201cwearing their youth like dew glistening on their head,\u201d two heroes identify themselves as \u201cthe silver platter on which the Jewish state was given.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I returned to my hopeful self. On Oct. 7, the government failed; the army failed temporarily, but the people of Israel succeeded. Ben, Itai and thousands of others, Jews and non-Jews, fought back, repelling most Hamas invaders within 24 hours.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do the math. Terrorists usually punch way above their weight, slaughtering civilians <i>en masse<\/i>. On September 11, 2001, 19 Jihadists killed nearly 3,000 people. Yet when over 3,000 terrorists and hundreds of other Gazans swarmed Israel, the ratio of armed marauders to innocents killed was remarkably low, although nevertheless devastating.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And how did Israelis save Israel? Thanks to Zionism. The Zionist ideas of self-reliance, self-defense and self-assurance, forged in the Bible, honed over thousands of years, updated this century, raised generations of Israelis ready and able to defend our country, our people and Western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Zionism cannot defeat Jew-hatred; it\u2019s the Jew-haters\u2019 disease, meaning it\u2019s not the Jews\u2019 responsibility to solve. But what Zionism can do, has done, and is doing daily, is give Jews values, a methodology of response, a motivation, vision and the skill-set to fight when necessary, but still build, rebuild and dream always.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of other texts from \u201cThe Zionist Ideas\u201d \u2014 highlighting just how many Zionist visions have emerged over the last century-and-a-half, and just how prescient most were \u2014 keep taking on new relevance with each battle, with each casualty, with each new solidarity mission, with each painful yet pride-infused lecture I give, with each letter I wrote to my students. Today, as Israel finally confronts Hezbollah with the aggressiveness those terrorists deserve, I keep quoting David Ben-Gurion. In January 1948, he said: \u201cThere is now nothing more important than war needs, and nothing equal to war needs,\u201d because that \u201ccruel and jealous Moloch\u201d of war, that god demanding child sacrifice, \u201cknows neither compassion nor compromise.\u201d Reading him, I understand that until Israel frees every remaining hostage, restores safety in the south, and returns all 60,000 northern evacuees home, Zionists are living in today time, in this endless moment, this excruciating far-too-long-and-costly unsought war, fighting relentlessly for victory.<\/p>\n<p>But just as Jews always live on secular time and Jewish time, Zionists simultaneously live in today, the day after, and, with apologies to Bill Clinton and Fleetwood Mac, we also don\u2019t \u2026 stop \u2026 thinking about tomorrow. In thinking about the day after, meaning how we go forward with our Arab neighbors, it\u2019s worth reading Ze\u2019ev Jabotinsky\u2019s controversial and oft-misquoted Zionist essay: \u201cIron Wall.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1923, respecting Arab national aspirations, Jabotinsky opposed expelling Arabs. He understood that \u201cOnly when not a single breach is visible\u201d in the Jews\u2019 \u201ciron wall\u201d of security, would the Arabs\u2019 \u201cextreme groups lose their sway\u201d so \u201cmoderates\u201d can \u201coffer suggestions for compromise.\u201d But to truly appreciate Jabotinsky and today\u2019s heroes, read his vision of Zionist youth, embodying \u201cbeauty, respect, self-esteem \u2026 honor\u201d and generosity, describing Israel\u2019s youth, including the many young heroes we raised so lovingly but have now buried.<\/p>\n<p>Pair those essays with Yitzhak Rabin, who hoped to sheathe his sword but refused to drop it prematurely. On October 6, 1994, he rejected \u201cthe road of zealousness,\u201d hewing to the \u201croad of maintaining a Jewish, democratic, liberal way of life.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, in thinking about tomorrow, I read how the poet Rachel Bluwstein issued a proud, nationalistic call in 1926 to plant a tree, with \u201can outburst of song.\u201d I marvel that in 1948, when six Arab armies attacked, a 23-year-old Haim Hefer looked ahead to the time when he and his wife, surrounded by \u201cthe children,\u201d would look back on this bloody war\u2019s glories and worries, remembering how \u201cwe fought and we loved.\u201d We all can\u2019t wait to sigh, as Hefer eventually did too, that \u201cThere were times.\u201d Those were the days. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Merely eight years later, in 1956, Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik could chronicle the miracles Israel already embodied, crying out in joy each time he listed one, \u201cListen! My Beloved knocks!\u201d We still hear that miraculous knocking as we turned the tide of battle, as the Iranians bombarded us but injured only one of our children, as someone clever turned personal pagers and walkie-talkies into terrorist-neutralizers \u2014 and exposers, as Israel did itself, the US, and Lebanon a favor by murdering the arch-terrorist Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I\u2019m discouraged, I read the Israeli and Zionist miracles Hillel Halkin catalogued, decades later in 2013, while judging Israel\u2019s story. \u201cThere\u2019s been nothing like it in human history,\u201d he marvels. \u201cA small and ancient people,\u201d lost, wandering, humiliated, returns, rebuilds and flourishes. \u201cHad it not happened, could it have been imagined? Would anyone have believed it possible?\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By springtime, as the universities we most worshiped tolerated encampments promoting the pro-Hamas values we most abhor, other texts became ever-more relevant. The vicious ideological assault on Zionism proved that as much as those of us in Israel need to read the texts by Zionist thinkers contained in the collection the Jewish Publication Society published, Jews and non-Jews worldwide need to understand these texts even more to refute the new big lies Academic Intifadists and others continue to spread. Jews need to reaffirm that the Zionist ideas are precisely that \u2013 a broad and compelling set of <i>ideas<\/i>, a wide range of perspectives that resist the simplistic, ideological pigeonholing that oversimplifies and inflames modern politics.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging students to keep perspective, I see how much they enjoy reading Rabbi David Hartman\u2019s \u201cAuschwitz or Sinai,\u201d which insists, \u201cWe will mourn forever because of the memory of Auschwitz. We will build a healthy new society because of the memory of Sinai.\u201d Similarly, the words of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the formal Zionist movement in 1897, still resound, that \u201cWe are a people \u2014 one people\u201d and that \u201cwhatever we attempt\u201d in our new Jewish state in our old-new homeland, \u201cto accomplish for our own welfare, will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity.\u201d That\u2019s why we don\u2019t build our identities, our Zionism, our homeland, on a foundation of anti-antisemitism, but on a positive Zionist vision, rooted in Jewish tradition, values, symbols and history, dreaming of a better world.<\/p>\n<p>To those who believe that \u201cnationalism\u201d is a dirty word, or that it belongs only to the Right, great liberal nationalists like Isaiah Berlin, Ruth Gavison, and Yuli Tamir push back. Their Zionisms express what Golda Meir in her 1958 UN speech celebrating Israel\u2019s 10th anniversary called \u201ca nationalism which is constructive and wholesome\u201d \u2014 or what President Isaac Herzog in 2022 called \u201cResponsibility Zionism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And for those who need shoring up as anti-Zionists try to perpetuate their \u201chistoricide\u201d seeking to kill our story, deny our rights, and negate our ties to the land, almost every text resists. Rav Abraham Isaac Kook emphasizes Jews\u2019 \u201corganic\u201d ties to Israel. The legendary leftist writer A.B. Yehoshua beautifully defined a Zionist in 2017 as someone who understands \u201cthat the State of Israel doesn\u2019t belong solely to its citizens, but to the entire Jewish people.\u201d The Canadian human rights activist Irwin Cotler affirms that the Jews are the Middle East\u2019s original aboriginal people, \u201ca prototypical First nation or indigenous people,\u201d practicing Judaism, which is \u201ca prototypical indigenous religion, the first of the Abrahamic religions.\u201d And the religious peace activist Leah Shakdiel loves \u201cannoying\u201d her \u201csecular Israeli friends\u201d by telling them \u201cthat if they do not see themselves as Jews,\u201d only then do they become \u201cimperialists, colonialists, who have no business being here.\u201d We, they, are in Israel, because of the Jewish ties to this particular Jewish homeland.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Tunisian-born anti-colonialist writer Albert Memmi helped build the ideological structure now weaponized against the Jewish state. But Memmi knew the truth. What we now call \u201cMizrachi Jews\u201d were doubly oppressed \u2014 by European colonialists and their neighboring Arab tormentors. Zionists, therefore, were Jews and non-Jews, \u201cwho having found that the Jewish situation is a situation of oppression\u201d in prestate times under the Ottomans then the British, recognize \u201cthe reconstruction of a Jewish state as legitimate,\u201d so Jews can be free and liberated too.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Professor Ruth Wisse warned in 2007 in \u201cJews and Power\u201d that the real \u201cJewish problem\u201d is \u201cthe problem of nations that blamed their dysfunction on the Jews.\u201d In a world that was ugly then, and is uglier now, the Jews\u2019 traditional mission of tikun olam, fixing the world, expanded: \u201cThe word goes forth from Zion in ways that earlier Zionists never intended: In defending themselves, Jews have been turned into the fighting front line of the democratic world.\u201d Americans who can\u2019t recognize Oct. 7 as an assault on Western civilization don\u2019t understand their need for Israel to win this battle clearly, unconditionally.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s always useful to touch base with Israel\u2019s 1948 Declaration of Independence, its military\u2019s extraordinary \u201cCode of Ethics,\u201d and the Prayer for the State of Israel. That prayer was written in the kind of unity we need: By the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel, with a key line added by the Nobel prize-winning novelist S.Y. Agnon, then published in the secular newspaper Ha\u2019aretz.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, it is remarkable how these texts spawned the poignant, patriotic, courageous final goodbyes to their parents penned by modern heroes like Ben Zussman and Shachar Fridman, soldiers fallen since Oct. 7. Their letters, written before going off to fight in Gaza, will enhance the next edition, along with \u201cIn Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One text after another, one larger-than-life superstar after another, one inspiring, reassuring idea after another, from three main Zionist eras, the Pioneers, the Builders, the Torchbearers, and all six main streams of Zionist thought, have kept me going during these trying days. For this reason, I stand by what I wrote over 20 years ago, and updated for the new book \u201cTo Resist the Academic Intifada,\u201d that proud cry: \u201cI am a Zionist!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why this Rosh Hashanah I invite you, my students, and you, their parents, siblings, and friends, to give yourselves the Mirror Test. Look in the mirror. Make sure you like what you see, you respect what you stand for, and like so many Israelis, you are ready to die for it. We learned this year, yet again, that such vision, commitment and love of life provide the only fulfilling way to live, realizing the true Zionist and American dream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/cover_story\/375489\/zionism-after-october-7\/\">Originally published in The Jewish Journal<\/a>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cataclysmic events challenge us to reset, reframe and reclaim. 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