Jeremiah (Jerry) Haber is the nom de plume of Charles H. Manekin, an orthodox Jewish studies and philosophy professor, who divides his time between Israel and the US. He gives an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective on Peter Beinart’s recent essays giving up on a two-state solution to Israel/Palestine.
He writes, “Progressive American Jews should give up on the State of Israel, but not on Israelis or those who support them. Those righteous Israelis, Jews and Palestinian citizens, who are trying to change things for the better need support (just as American Jewish progressives need support from their progressive Israeli cousins). As for the other Israeli Jews, they should be treated as disapproved family members who range from relatively harmless bigots to condemnable segregationists and supremacists. To be more charitable, they may be viewed as children who have grown up captive to a ethno-nationalist morality and who need to be reeducated.”
For the entire article, see http://www.jeremiahhaber.com/2020/07/what-american-progressive-jews-can-do.html.
