Is a Just Zionism Possible?

Outreach Lecture
Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The general public is invited to a symposium on:
Is a Just Zionism Possible?

Michael Walzer and David Luban will discuss Chaim Gans' book,
A Just Zionism, which offers a rigorous philosophical analysis of
the Zionist enterprise. There author will respond.

Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
David Luban, Georgetown University Law Center
Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University, the Faculty of Law

The symposium took place on June 2, 2011 at 18:30 at the
Institute for Advanced Studies, the Feldman Building, Room 130,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram campus.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Advanced
• Studies
• Hebrew
• University
• Jerusalem
• Zionism
• Michael
• Walzer
• David
• Luban
• Chaim
• Gans
• language:en

[caillustration]

oc00011, while states such as the US were founded with bloodshed, they were founded many hundreds of years ago. The world does not condone this anymore, an example of this is that The UN has said that territory cannot be aquired by aggression. This is the view of the majority of the world. Another thing to remember unjust actions dont justify more unjust actions. What would you say to a man robbing you if he said, " well other people commit robbery"?? Zionism is unjust, nice try though

[oc00011]

@caillustration here's a discussion on the why-how-what-etc of if zionism is unjust, & its taking place in the zionist state. is this a virtue of an unjust system?

also, please consider that in terms of history, u can't mention ANY state that wasn't founded partially by bloodshed. so "no state is just". anthropologically human nature perpetuated this pattern, sadly. also consider that both jews AND arabs were already there, & BOTH parties decided to take over from foreign lands.

[caillustration]

Persecution justifying the persecution of others is rediculous. I can understand the argument of "we were persecuted and need to flee", but you cannot flee to a place where there are allready people and decide to take over the area. That is not a just argument. Zionism is unjust; there is No way around it..... nice try though

[DanHadan]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern just about sums this performance up.