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Israeli and International Currents

Will Covenantal Liberal Nationalism Survive? Israel and America under Threat

 

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1 Daniel Elazar, Covenant and Civil Society: Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy (New Brunswick, 1998), p. 378.

2 Ibid., p. 131. Adds Elazar: “As Saadia Gaon wrote in ninth-century Babylonia, the Jews are a nation by virtue of their Torah, that is, by virtue of their covenant-founded, morally grounded constitution and laws. Though much has happened to change the Jewish people since then, that is still true.”

3 Irving Louis Horowitz, “Who Owns Judaism?” Society, XXXVI:4 (May/June 1999), 27.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid., p. 376. See also his references in footnote 4, p. 381.

6 Jacob L. Talmon, “Uniqueness & Universality of Jewish History: A Mid-Century Revaluation,” Commentary (July 1957).

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

9 H.N. Bialik, “The City of Slaughter,” Complete Poetic Works of Hayyim Nahman Bialik (vol. 1), Israel Efros (ed.) (New York, 1948), pp. 129–43, https://faculty.history.umd.edu/BCooperman/NewCity/Slaughter.html.

10 Jonathan Sacks, “How the Jewish People Invented Hope,” My Jewish Learning, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/how-the-jewish-people-invented-hope/.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid.

13 Ibid.

14 Hedva Ben-Israel, “Talmon on Nationalism,” History of European Ideas, XXXIV:2 (2008), 196.

15 Isaiah Berlin, “Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power,” Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, H. Hardy (ed.) (New York, 1980), p. 338.

16 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “On Freedom,” The Sir Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture, Hampstead Synagogue, June 16, 2003, https://www.rabbisacks.org/archive/on-freedom-the-sir-isaiah-berlin-memorial-lecture/.

17 Melanie Phillips, “The real threat to Israeli democracy,” Israel National News, March 2, 2023, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368191.

18 David Goodhart, The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics (London, 2017).

19 Gabriel Noah Brahm, “‘I am one of those liberals who got mugged by reality’: An Interview with Gadi Taub,” Fathom, March 3, 2023.

20 Leon R. Kass, “Where Are We?” Jewish Leadership Conference Speech, October 29, 2023, https://www.jewishleadershipconference.org/session/herzl-prize-address-2023/.

21 “Bari Weiss: “You are the Last Line of Defense,” Federalist Society 22nd Barbara K. Olsen Memorial Lecture, November 22, 2023, https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/22nd-barbara-k-olson-memorial-lecture-by-Bari-Weiss.

22 Megan Brenan, “Record-Low 38 percent Extremely Proud to Be American,” Gallup News, June 29, 2022, https://news.gallup.com/poll/394202/record-low-extremely-proud-american.aspx.

23 “58 percent ‘Very Proud’ to Be American,” Rasmussen Reports, July 14, 2022, https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/july_2022/58_very_proud_to_be_american.

24 Spencer Lindquist, “EXCLUSIVE: Leaked NSA Doc Reveals Massive Woke Glossary Pushing Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology at Intel Agency,” The Daily Wire, November 15, 2023. https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees.

25 Daniel J. Mahoney, “The Crisis of the West Revisited: Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish,” The American Mind, October 30, 2023. https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-crisis-of-the-west-revisited-self-flagellation-and-the-great-liberal-death-wish/.

26 Weiss, op. cit.

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Juliana Geran Pilon

Juliana Geran Pilon is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Her latest book is An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left (2023). Her previous works include The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom (2019); The Art of Peace: Engaging a Complex World (2016); and Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve (2012). Dr. Geran Pilon has taught at the National Defense University, The Institute of World Politics, American University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and George Washington University, among others.

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