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As still another war rages between Hamas in Gaza and Israel, a debate has revived between critics and defenders of Israel about whether Israel is a “settler-colonial state” created by émigrés over the objection of the native inhabitants. The debate has implications for the way people view Hamas’s October 7 attacks against Israelis, but it is also relevant to understanding what the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is really about and how it should or can b...

Jonathan Ofir grew up on a kibbutz and was never told of the destroyed Palestinian village upon which it was built. But some signs remain, like the cacti which Israelis have attempted to appropriate, but signify the deep Palestinian ties to the land.

Get email notification for articles from Avi Shilon Follow Jul. 7, 2021 3:40 AM At a time when many people remain preoccupied with the future of Benjamin Netanyahu or of his Likud party once he leaves the scene (which will happen sooner than imagined, “The king is dead – long live the king” is an iron law of politics that even David Ben-Gurion could not defy when he tried to return to the stage after his time as prime minister), the bigger question is the future of the right. The new gov...

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The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the... Ahimeir and Hebrew poet Uri Zvi Greenberg founded the Revisionist Maximalist Bloc, whose newspaper Ahimeir edited, and then the clandestine Brit HaBirionim. Inspired by the Sicarii Zealots or “dagger men” during the Jewish revolt against Rome, this became a model for violent underground movements like the Irgun. From 1933, Ahimeir’s “Revolutionary Zionists” preached a direct confrontati...

Yisrael Medad spent many hours with the poet and Revisionist Zionist Uri Tzvi Greenberg (1896-1981) at Greenberg’s Ramat Gan home in the decade prior to his death. ‘He prayed wrapped in tallit and tefillin, rushing back-and-forth from wall to wall in his living room’ he recalls, ‘less praying than conducting a demanding conversation with God’. Medad rereads Greenberg’s 1929 poem Sicarii II , with its demand for a rebel’s mindset and a revolutionary spirit, its hymn of praise to Je...

The French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who died on Dec. 29 at age 98, likely acquired empathy for Jewish customers through his wartime experience as an Italian émigré to France. Cardin, who created futuristic garb for everyone from the Beatles to NASA astronauts, was born Pietro Costante Cardin in the province of Treviso, in the Veneto region of north-eastern Italy. His parents, farm owners, were economically devastated by the First World War. As a result, in 1924, when Cardin was two yea...