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...Labor Party headquarters in Tel Aviv's low-rent Ha-Tikva quarter, the moments after the election results came through were dismal. Outside the hall, the wind carried the discordant sounds of a few dozen disappointed activists gamely singing along with Labor leader Amram Mitzna, as he crooned old Zionist tunes from the 1950s. A clutch of young Labor supporters huddled on a wall, smoking cigarettes. Yoav Zinger, an 18-year-old, lamented that he was soon due to begin his compulsory military service. "That's why I'm depressed," he said. "So many people were killed already...
...election, in which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is likely to trounce challenger Amram Mitzna, Lahav is in demand at clubs all over the country, and singalong television shows teach youngsters old campfire numbers from the 1948 Independence War. The intifadeh "has pushed Israeli society back in history to its Zionist ideological phase," says Benny Morris, a leading post-Zionist historian. "People are moving backward to a collectivist view." The effect of the New Zionism isn't limited to social life. Because most Israelis are convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will never stick to an acceptable peace agreement, right-wing...
...election. New to the job and already stalked by party rivals, the former mayor of Haifa released his first campaign spots last week - and they didn't even mention his plan to restart negotiations with the Palestinians and evacuate Israeli settlements in Gaza. Instead, he went with the New Zionist flow and showed photos from his days as an army general, including a video clip in which assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, an old-time Zionist hero if ever there was one, heaped praise on Mitzna. The price for this return to Zionism is being paid by Israel...
...views.” And what are his real views? “The need to oppose all forms of anti-Semitism” based on “a lifelong commitment to fighting racism in all its forms.” There, however, is the rub. Paulin compares Zionists to the SS, yet at the same time excoriates T.S. Eliot, Class of 1910, as anti-Semitic, professing himself a “Philo-Semite” for whom calls for Israel’s destruction are perfectly compatible with his self-proclaimed credentials as an opponent of anti-Semitism?...
...hardly suppresses his free speech rights. If anything, his status as an enfant terrible guarantees him publicity, prizes and platforms at prestigious universities. Paulin declares that there is a “conspiracy of silence” in Britain and that “the Blair government is a Zionist government.” If this classic anti-Semitic slur were correct, however, why is it that Paulin himself hasn’t been silenced? Whether right or wrong, charges of anti-Semitism do not suppress free-speech, any more than do charges of racism. Such charges are part...