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Tsvi Bisk – Israel: Reflections of a Dejected Optimist

Tsvi Bisk – Israel: Reflections of a Dejected Optimist On the one hand, I haven’t been as proud of the Israeli people as I have in the last several months. The massive, immediate recognition of what is at stake, and the resoluteness in refusin

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Tsvi Bisk – Doable Reparations: THE REALITIES OF REPARATIONS

Tsvi Bisk – Doable Reparations: THE REALITIES OF REPARATIONS THE REALITIES OF REPARATIONS Since German reparations to the Jewish People have long served as an analogue to possible American reparations to African Americans, it might be useful to addr

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Dori Bisk: In Israel, We Just Keep Walking

Dori Bisk: In Israel, We Just Keep Walking ‘I just hate terrorist attacks’ the thin nurse says to the older one ‘Want some gum?’ In a single sentence, legendary Etgar Keret manages to depict life in Israel. If you grew up here, or have lived here

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Tsvi Bisk – Deplatforming Seditionists is Not Censorship

Tsvi Bisk – Deplatforming Seditionists is Not Censorship Twitter and Facebook (and others) are being accused of censorship by deplatforming Trump and his political apologists. Such an accusation is pure demagoguery. Deplatforming is not censorship,

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Tsvi Bisk - Polishism & Zionism: the Ironies of History

Tsvi Bisk – Polishism & Zionism: the Ironies of History Many early Zionists were Jews from Poland and Polish speaking Belarus. They were greatly influenced by Polish Nationalism, which had constituent parts similar to Zionism and which developed in

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Tsvi Bisk - From Edward Longshanks to Woodrow Wilson

Tsvi Bisk – From Edward Longshanks to Woodrow Wilson King Edward the First– the “Hammer of the Scots” (nicknamed “Longshanks” because of his uncharacteristic height) –slaughtered the Scots and expelled the Jews from the B