The parable of the man and the mosquito

JVL Introduction

WE are delighted that Jeremiah Haber aka the Magnes Zionist has put up a new short post.

Since 2007 he has published a blog devoted to “Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective”.

But after more than a decade of brilliant, insightful, thought-provoking and moving commentary he more or less retired early in 2018.

As he wrote in October 2019: “The real reasons that I stopped posting: a) I said almost all I had to say several times; b) the situation had become even more bleak since then for Palestine; c) the world got politically worse; d) it’s not about me, and who cares what I think?”

The answer to d) is “We do!”

But since then, only two posts.

The first was a reposting of Robert A.H.Cohen’s wonderful “As a British Jew I’m Not Fearful of a Corbyn Government but I’m Horrified at How Antisemitism is Being Used Against Him”; the second, in July 2020  an intervention inspired by Peter Beinart’s call “to envision a Jewish home that is a Palestinian home, too”.

And yesterday, a new post, with a parable about Gaza.

Welcome back Jerry!

This article was originally published by the Magnes Zionist blogspot on Sun 16 May 2021. Read the original here.