Happy Independence Day — If You Celebrate It
In what other country in the world would you find a major university qualifying their Independence Day greeting to students? What does that little “if you celebrate it” do to those who see it? Who would even think up such a thing? Or am I making a mountain out of a molehill? During Israel’s Independence […]
Self-Assertiveness, Nationalism And Israel
Or: How did nationalism get such a bad rap? And: What’s a proud Israeli to do? People on the left side of the political spectrum talk about nationalism as if it is a dirty word, something to be discarded for global(homogen)ization. Israelis who support the two-state solution (TSS) argue that possession of rocks and buildings, […]