Anti-Zionism

Lior Bar-El Sinai Scholars Essay 4/10/16 The First Roman Jewish War The First Roman Jewish war was a conflict with great ramifications. It resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and started the transformation from a Judaism centered on temple sacrifices to a Judaism dominated by Rabbis and the interpretations of scripture. Militarily, this conflict was important as it saw diverse militaries fighting with contrasting tactics. The Jewish rebels fought with irregular tactics…

to self-preserve itself. Since then, the Jewish people were slowly provoked into several conflicts and revolts against the Roman empire which led to further harsh oppression of the Jews in the empire. Although the Romans were initially not an openly anti-semitic…

Let’s Talk About Israel On an episode of “The Daily Show” this summer, Jon Stewart spoke about Israel. In this specific segment, Stewart informed his viewers how America was re-supplying Israel with ammunition to defend itself against Hamas. In response to this, he said, “We cannot be Israel’s rehab sponsor and it’s drug dealer. It’s not going to work.” Well, I am sure you can imagine the backlash Stewart received. To many, this was unjustified criticism of Israel. To others, it was spot on…

The main topic of the source presented is how strong religious beliefs can strike a sense of nation within a people; subsequently creating a nation state. This idea is evident within the source through the quotation stating “... We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” This quotation demonstrates how strong religious nationalistic beliefs in addition to great perseverance can lead a people to gaining own nation state to call home. The speaker's perspective is that of the Arabic during…

When my parents informed me of a possible trip to Israel last spring, I brushed it off. There had been so many times that they had suggested trips that eventually fizzled out when we couldn’t get it together in time. This prospective trip to Israel was different, though: it would include my Dad’s parents, brother and niece and it would occur in tangential celebration of my brother’s thirteenth birthday. I say tangential because my family isn’t really Jewish and we certainly aren’t observant.…

With the rise of Christianity within the Roman Empire, Jews had to adapt their own cultures and beliefs to fit and endure the changing times. In Culture of the Jews: Mediterranean Origins Oded Irshai explores the changes that took place within Jewish culture and the factors that caused said changes in his article “Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Culture in the World of Byzantium.” In his article he looks at the increasingly Christian Roman Empire and its effect on Palestine while…

Think about this situation, you are at school and suddenly there is an earthquake tornado or some other natural disaster. Sadly most of the students are killed, later the parents are called in to help identify some of the remains. How are these parents going to figure out if this corpse is their child? Hmmm… maybe by what they saw their child walk out of the house in that morning, so uniforms actually could cause a problem instead of help fix them.      School uniforms…

Anyone who has ever attended a history class of any kind has undoubtedly heard of Jonathan Edwards, and those that have heard of him are often taken aback by his forceful and fear inducing form of preaching. Many wonder why Edwards implemented such harsh tactics in order to preach the word of God, but what they don’t realize is that Edwards isn’t the only preacher to have applied such tactics. To this day there are preachers everywhere that use fear tactics and forceful remedies to spread the…

Final EXAM Part II: C Antifederalists vs Federalists Debate Tyranny and the New Constitution Antifederalists like George Mason’s objected to the new Constitution based upon their fear that the National Government would hold too much power and become tyrannical. The main objection that most Antifederalists shared was the Constitution’s lack of a bill of rights to protect the rights of citizens. Mason argued that since the national laws held supremacy to that of the State laws the…

Copyright Laws: Are Web Photos Protected? If the computer and website allows one to download a photo, is this individual committing copyright infringement? Possibly, yes. Copyright laws are confusing to almost everyone, including the artists and composers, and/or the creator of this image or intellectual property, as well as the one who wants to download this composition, no matter the reason. There are exceptions, such as teaching purposes, ‘fair use’, 'public domain ', as well as for…