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2 Camps At War/Being Born in Israel

Posted on October 5, 2023 by zjb

  Society is an organism that builds upon the coming together, pulling apart, and coming together of group life. At moments of political crisis, the shifts are vital and volatile. In this light, Israel today would represent a case-study of … Continue reading →

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Israel Democracy NYC

Posted on September 24, 2023 by zjb

Sustained over the course of the entire week, the protest movement for democracy followed Prime Minister Netanyahu to New York throughout the entirety of his recent trip. At Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, the main protest on Friday against the judicial overhaul … Continue reading →

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(This Week) Israel Democracy Protests (NYC)

Posted on September 17, 2023 by zjb
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Israel (Democracy-Autocracy) Flow Chart

Posted on August 19, 2023 by zjb
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(Religious Zionism) No Democracy (With Occupation + Settlements)

Posted on August 13, 2023 by zjb

In a previous post, I posed a set of claims, the basic point being that the internal rift in Israel is not between Zionism and democracy, but rather between Zionism and religion. The argument is based on the claim that … Continue reading →

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Illegal Settlements Fail To Settle Hearts and Mind in Israel

Posted on August 8, 2023 by zjb

Based on demography, the fragility of the illegal settlement project in the Israeli Occupied Palestinian West Bank boils down to the failure of the settlement movement to “settle the hearts and mind” of the larger public in Israel. Setting itself … Continue reading →

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(Torah Trumps Life) Haredi Response to Covid and Uncivil Religion

Posted on July 28, 2023 by zjb

I wrote this essay, “Torah Trumps Life,” trying to get a handle on the catastrophic Haredi response to Covid during year-one of the pandemic. It is my contrubution to this special issue on Jewish Thiought in Times of Crisis, edited … Continue reading →

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(Zionism) Secularism Democracy Religion (Israel)

Posted on July 24, 2023 by zjb

In real-time, Israel has become a huge laboratory-experiment for the study of religion, politics, law, and society; a small and ugly petri-dish for the study of contemporary Judaism and Jewishness. Elected in November 2022 and with passage of the first … Continue reading →

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Pro-Coup & Anti-Coup (Israel and West Bank)

Posted on July 23, 2023 by zjb

These two maps. On the right, the map shows where people can grab a bus for a pro-government, pro-regime coup demonstreation to be held in Tel Aviv. On the left, the map marks points where pro-democracy protests have taken place … Continue reading →

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Smoke

Posted on July 17, 2023 by zjb
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