Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch has made advancing the Zionist cause a focal point of his work for more than 30 years at the forefront of Reform Judaism. A former IDF tank commander, Hirsch helped lead the push for the Reform movement’s official support of Israel in 1997. At Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, where he has served as senior rabbi since 2004, support for Israel is in the mission statement.

But lately, Rabbi Hirsch has been wondering where it all went wrong with young American Jews. Since the Oct. 7 attack, he has used his pulpit to reflect on the trend of Jewish anti-Zionism, and the “uncomfortable reality” that many anti-Zionists are products of Reform institutions. He returned to that territory with a Yom Kippur sermon that charged anti-Zionist Jews with “turning your backs on our people.”

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago

Many such cases.

[–] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 7 points 9 hours ago

Genocide and imperialism are actually completely unpalatable to people. Unfortunately this means our most serious task is taking on the Al Jazeera left, Jewish Currents type people, the more subtly Zionist liberals who are just salty they don't live in a fantasy land where Ofer Sharif and the Palestinian Authority join hands and tap dance into their utopian vision of Israel (that is dead and buried now), the libertarians who sell us a ripped off schlock version of antiimperialism, the governments and pacifists scared shitless of insurgent decolonization being again proven to be effective