A few generations back, who would have thought that I – that we – would have the opportunity to shape a Jewish state?

Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hallevai-declaring-war-on-despair/

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-exhibit-shows-israeli-hebrew-didnt-kill-yiddish-it-gave-it-a-new-nest-to-live-in/

Ben Gurion assured him that he would succeed in creating a Jewish state.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/rav-moshe-mordechai-epstein-and-rav-isser-zalman-meltzer-and-dovid-yosef-gruen/2023/11/16/

But it would inevitably mean the end of the Jewish state, as Jews became a minority within the single state’s population.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/04/israel-palestine-is-the-two-state-solution-the-answer-to-the-crisis

But the remnant of anti-Zionist Jews (bless their hearts) such as the American Council for Judaism interpret unfaithfulness to include a failure to act justly and idolatry as the placement of the Jewish state above all else.

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/srichman/2023/03/12/hear-o-israel-give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/

"Calling the establishment of the world’s only Jewish state a ‘catastrophe’ is deeply offensive, and I strongly disagree with allowing this event to be held on Capitol Hill."

Source: https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/358714/rashida-tlaib-holds-nakba-day-event-in-senate-building/

CNN host Dana Bash said she has noticed that progressive women have largely remained silent on the horrific sexual assaults Hamas committed during its deadly invasion of the Jewish state.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/12/03/news/rep-pramila-jayapal-slammed-for-asking-for-balanced-criticism-in-response-to-question-on-hamas-rapes/

Do you have a problem with the existence of a Jewish state whose national anthem relates to Jewish yearning?

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/larrys-letters/larrys-letters-testing-the-direction-of-j-street/2023/01/12/

Erdan fights the lonely fight against the global antisemitism that permeates the UN, as the nations repeatedly focus on and vote against the one Jewish state.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/photos/one-lonely-little-guy-going-up-against/2023/01/19/

Even worse, the State Department report effectively denies that the Jewish state has the right to enforce its laws toward its Arab citizens.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-sinister-turn-against-israel-opinion-1789720

From here, it’s an easy ride for CNN to present both the PLO and Hamas as products of the Israeli occupation, and not of their fundamental refusal to recognize the existence of the Jewish state.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/27/cnn-distorts-history-to-absolve-hamas-and-blame-israel-for-oct-7-massacre/

Gold’s “deep dedication to the Jewish state and his impactful leadership in safeguarding its vitality and security,” make him a worthy recipient, said Berman.

Source: https://jewishjournal.com/community/359500/survivor-and-iron-dome-inventor-are-saluted-by-yeshiva-u/

Hamas continues to reject any recognition of the Jewish state, while the P.A. occasionally pays lip service to the two-state solution.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/10/palestinian-society-sinks-into-shambles/

He has been a member of several panels and discussion groups with topics ranging from interfaith dialogue in the Middle East to Israel’s importance as a Jewish state and holds dual US/Israeli citizenship.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/radio/yishai-fleisher-on-jewishpress/the-battle-between-national-rebirth-and-nihilism/2023/01/12/

However, “morally complicated” is perhaps the last phrase most people would use to describe the mission to apprehend the Nazi mass murderer and transport him to the Jewish state to stand trial.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/09/07/israel-in-hollywood-how-the-jewish-state-never-makes-the-cut-in-film-reviews/

In one particularly infamous quote, he: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/09/20/no-one-should-be-blindsided-by-palestinian-antisemitism/

In their view, the Jewish state itself is the problem, and getting rid of it is the answer.

Source: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/can-two-state-solution-be-saved

It is one or both of the following: a desire to see the Jewish state of Israel subsumed within an Arab-majority Greater Palestine; a call for the obliteration of Israel and its inhabitants.

Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/israel-gaza-right-to-exist-palestine-suffering-b1128091.html

Its second just ran into a more Earthly obstacle:When an Israeli startup launched a dishwasher-sized craft into space in 2019, it aimed to make the Jewish state the fourth nation to land a spaceship on the moon, and the first to do so using private money.

Source: https://forward.com/forward-newsletters/forwarding-the-news/554144/special-report-from-tbilisi-liberal-jews-start-shul-amid-orthodox-outrage/

Jews are confronting a level of antisemitism not previously experienced in postwar Australia and, within progressive circles and institutions and even among some Jews, a wholesale revision of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/how-the-israel-gaza-war-is-tearing-melbourne-apart-20231212-p5er1s.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national