Hannah Arendt on What Went Wrong with the Zionist Project (Jonathan Graubart)
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2023
- Arendt’s extraordinary insights on nationalism, federalism, political rebirth, imperialism, and racism originated in her writings on the modern Jewish experience in Europe and on the Zionist project. This talk reviews Arendt’s highly personal and intellectually rich reflections on the promises and perils of Zionism. She took pride in Palestine’s pre-state Yishuv for developing a new Jewish cultural center and socially just institutions, like the kibbutzim. Arendt saw the potential of Zionism to advance Jewish emancipation and contribute to global struggles for a more egalitarian, democratic and peaceful world. Ultimately, however, Arendt lamented the Zionist movement’s embrace of the two dynamics that had proved so deadly to Jews and to the world at large: the nation-state system and imperialism. To realize the promise of Zionism, argued Arendt, the movement would need to overcome two crippling pathologies: a belief in an eternal antisemitism and an attraction to a “tribal” nationalism. Her Zionist writings remain essential for both reflecting upon the grave contemporary crisis of Zionism and inspiring contemporary Jewish pariahs.
Biography of Jonathan Graubart:
Jonathan Graubart is a professor of political science at San Diego State University who specializes in the areas of international relations, international law, Zionism and Jewish dissent, Israel-Palestine, the UN, normative theory, and resistance politics. He received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 and his JD from UC Berkeley Law School in 1989.
Graubart’s recent book is Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs (Temple University Press 2023). Richard Falk describes it as “An exciting, profound, and humane critical rethinking of Zionism as the ideological foundation of the Israeli state, Graubart’s alternative vision reinforces what Zionism might have become if its leaders had not opted for an exclusivist Jewish state necessitating the continuous repression, exploitation, and discrimination of the Palestinian people in their own homeland. The recent surge to the Israeli far right gives this fine book a timely urgency, especially for liberal Jews, who should be deeply disturbed by what has happened in Israel beneath the banner of Zionism.”
His other publications include “Reimagining Zionism and Coexistence after Oslo’s Death: Lessons from Hannah Arendt” (Arendt Studies Quarterly, 2019), “David in Goliath’s Citadel: Mobilizing the Security Council’s Normative Power for Palestine” (European Journal of International Relations 2016, co-authored with Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi), and “War is Not the Answer: R2P and Military Intervention,” (part of an edited volume by Cambridge University Press on Responsibility to Protect, 2015). In 2008, Graubart published Legalizing Transnational Activism: The Struggle to Gain Social Change from NAFTA’s Citizen Petitions with Penn State University Press.
long live the political thoughts & philosophical thinking of Hannah Arendt, folks 😀
Great discussion, thank you. On a technical note, the sound is low and at times muffled, making it difficult to understand. Is it possible to enhance it? Removing the relentless keyboarding would be a huge bonus too. Thanks again!
goodness, I don't say it is intentional, but the only woman in the room is literally eclipsed.
Erasure is never unintended.
jk relax
Omg the way he sits down in front of her 😅
Depends on your viewing position really. What a metaphor.
That is the 1st shock I had😢
Arendt was correct. I pray for all the Jews and Arabs. May peace be achieved rapidly.
Pray for US too, it is even sicker based on the expectations of the government
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Thank you for this.
I feel fortunate to have come across this channel to find such an interesting discussion. Still, the guest was sometimes challenging to understand during the presentation and the question-and-answer session. The most frustrating pronunciation I tried to understand was the name of an author, your guest, correlated to Edward Said or two sides of the coin. It becomes more difficult to do further research on these discussions when source material or A link to the author's book is in the description.
I enjoyed the discussion, but it would eliminate much post-education work of audience members having to track down points in the video for source material and book titles. I urge the moderators or whoever runs the channel to include links in the video's description.
I wonder (as a gentile looker on) how Arendt and others reached a belief that anti-semitism was NOT evil and perpetual?
History seems to indicate otherwise.
Hi John. That is a perceptive and key question. I have not read enough Arendt to know her argument here but given her personal history I would want to take it very seriously. I suppose it's also a question of your world view and how you think ideologies (including religious beliefs) arise and interact.
It's not a direct answer either but you might find it interesting to watch Christopher Hitchen's very nuanced lecture at UCLA. Search for "Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism."
As a Jew I do not think antisemitism is all that relevant anymore. it is mostly exists in the minds of the Zionists, who equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism which is absurd because there are many antizionist Jews. This is not to say there are no antisemites but there are not that many genuine ones. Arabs/Palestinians cannot be called antisemites exactly because they are of the semitic race themselves and their objections are mainly against the iniquities and abuses of the Israeli occupation.
@@martifingers doing that right now thx
I can’t recite the details bcuz « Benadryl » but she makes a claim that anti-semitism is conditional and some of the conditions are counterintuitive and therefore it can’t be innately perpetual.
*this can be found in the beginning of Origins. And variations on this theme can be found in other works & essays
we all need our own solarpunk human zionism
It's possible to be a Liberal or Conservative Imperialist.
Easier to be a Liberal ex-Imperialist.
sigh*
So substitute any other race for jews, and the same thoughts you present also hold true.
Nah, then they’ll tell you it’s straight up racism.
It was a stupid idea from the get-go.
so what would your idea be?
@@scot2622 For what?
@@scot2622 If the US and UK wanted to provide WWII refugees with a place to relocate, they should have made accommodations in their own countries. Settler colonialism went out with the 19th century.
@@Jimi_LeeJewish socialists setting up kibbutz’s on empty land is settler colonialism? That doesn’t sound right to me, unless you believe Palestinians, or any humans for that matter have ownership over land not in use, or in other words, free from claim other than from a sovereign ‘being’, like a state.
Even if you believe in private property, land not in use is no one’s land until that land is put to use.
@@scot2622most likely nobody envisioned how well Jews would do in the USA and Canada over the second half of the 20th Century. The reality is that Jews do in fact have a very good option and that is moving to North America. In some ways what the Haredi say has come true: the existence of Israel in its current form has led to increased anti semitism. It took many decades to become obvious but that has proven to be the case.
Do we really have to watch this guy chew? Does no one there understand the basic principles of videography?
Jesus christ can gou please get a proper microphone? A Blue snowball isnt expensive maybe £50 come on people
omg what a bunch of kooks
What do you consider a "kook," someone that doesn't believe that the solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem is exterminating all the Palestinians?
Just coexistance with palestine arabs…well, we all know where that would have ended!!!
Besides, I dont agree with their take on Arendts views at all
How would you know? It was never tried.