The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the
Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at
the storm center of history, because Jews can never take the right
to live as a natural right.
The volume comprises celebrations and attacks. Edward Alexander
celebrates writers like Abba Kovner, Cynthia Ozick, Ruth Wisse, and
Hillel Halkin, who recognized in the foundation of Israel shortly
after the destruction of European Jewry one of the few redeeming
events in a century of blood and shame. He attacks Israel's
external enemies--busy planners of boycotts, brazen advocates of
politicide, professorial apologists for suicide bombing--and also
its internal enemies. These are "anti-Zionist" Jews, devotees of
lost causes willfully blind to the fact that Israel's creation was
an event of biblical magnitude. Indifference to Jewish survival
during World War II was the admitted moral failure of earlier
American-Jewish intellectuals, but today's "progressives" and "New
Diasporists" call indifference virtue, and mistake cowardice for
courage.
Because the new anti-Semitism, tightening the noose around
Israel's throat, emanates mainly from liberals, Alexander analyzes
both antisemitic and philosemitic strains in three prominent
Victorian liberals: Thomas Arnold, his son Matthew, and John Stuart
Mill. The main body of Alexander's book is divided generically into
history, politics, and literature. At a deeper level, its chapters
are integrated by the book's pervasive concern: the
interconnectedness between the state of Israel and the spiritual
state of contemporary Jewry.
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