Book Event: Zionism: An Emotional State by Derek Penslar

In Zionism: An Emotional State, author Derek J. Penslar demonstrated how the energy propelling the Zionist project originates from bundles of feeling whose elements have varied in volume, intensity, and durability across space and time. Penslar examined the emotions that have shaped Zionist sensibilities and practices throughout the movement’s history.
Featuring Derek J. Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University
Moderated by Shaul Magid, HDS Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies

[@knoore]

Thank you prof. Penslar for speaking true words..

[@joelbitton]

I am a 73 year old man and I have spent the better part of my life trying to understand why I seem to always feel a certain sadness in my heart. Then I thought, maybe this had something to do with it. Hopefully this story brings out others like me. In 1963 Zionists came to my home in Casablanca Morocco, to convince my parents to send me and my little sister to Israel without them. I was 12 and my sister 9 when we started our miserable journey to the "Promised land". It destroyed our family and left me and my sister with long lasting scars neither one of us has been able to heal. Being from Morocco made it even more difficult to live in a more racist country than Morocco ever was. We had a very peaceful life as Jews living amongst Muslims in Morocco. We understood each other and helped each other. To this day, the principal advisor to King Mohamed is a Jew. But the Zionists needed boddies to fill Israel and slowly claim more and more land from the Palestinians they kept displacing. The people running Israel are not Jews. True Jews would have helped the Palestinians evolve and share in their fortunes, like we did for centuries in the Arab world. Israel claims it is defending itself? Against whom? The people they have been displacing and opressing for 80 years? Israel, my advice to you, if you want to survive, get rid of the religious zealots who run your government and join the 21st century.

[@Aperspective1]

seriously how would you put that Jewish shame/trauma onto Palestinian shoulders and somehow consider the genocidal assault on Palestinians as something comprehensible?

[@mmab2]

Palestinians hatred is not the same as the Israelis/Zionists hatred. The first one is directed to settlers only; the other is direct to Arabs in general

[@benayakoren5045]

Citation needed

[@davidschalit907]

Wrong about Israelis. 'Palestinians' consider ALL Israelis 'settlers'.

[@got0die]

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[@m-z-nzedjali4043]

Very cool title

[@Ninoblack88]

This was so necessary. Tremendous talk. Cut through all the nonsense and speak truth.

[@aaronfarkas6890]

Free Israel

[@NoranAzmy]

Free Palestine

[@aaronfarkas6890]

@NoranAzmy Free Israel