>>131150325
>>131152809Olivia Rodrigo
Drizzy is so friggin tuff
>>131152821>yfw you have to Do It for another two hours
i wish i was that baby
>>131152825Drizzy's farts smell really nasty and tends to kill every small animal nearby
I'm off to watch anime, have fun
Enjoy your tranime
we lost one livvyxisters
Seethers lost
>>131152809*ahem*
>>131152863*signs*
>>131152858What happened sis?
Gotta love the Magster!You just gotta!
>>131152874hi ninny, how are you?
>>131152859>>131152867>1 pic a minute this won't do it's gonna take you 2 and a half hourscan't other drizzygods help?
You better do that motherfuckin' show inside the bityMaroon 5 need a verse, you better make it wittyThen we need a verse for the SwiftiesTop say drop, you better drop and give 'em 50
>>131152848Olivia teeth
>>131152874Seriously, are you ninny or his gay buddy?
>>131152905https://youtu.be/LbwKSw2UTq8?t=8m47s
todd in the shadows not like us review
>>131152933no stamina?
>>131152937that's Bugs Bina not Tom Bina
>>131152878>>131152912I am a ninny apologist
Stop crying
>>131152963I'm not cryingMy mom's grooving to Caroline Polachek :3
word going around that legendary producer William Orbit (Ray of Light) has passed away. massive RIP if true
>>131152963130
>>131152963i was about to post this image lol
My prostate and bladder hurt :-/
>>131152970legend...
>>131152970ray of light is a bop Drizzy still mogs though
>>131152982You deserve it for all that thievery
COMIN' THROUGH ON WHAT I DOI NEVER KNEW YOUR CREW BE DOO-DOOWITH THE BUM TO THE BOOM-BOOMBUM-DE, BUM-DE-BUM, BOOM WITH THE BOOM BOOMWHAT DO YOU DO? PUT YA CREW IN A NEW BLUE TUTUOOHWHO MANDEM? OVER BY THE CHIP SHOP? YO, CAN'T STAND THEM
124you can do this in an hour if you work together
>>131152960Yo, got that Tom Bina on a surfboard surfing over Halsey and Maggie?
yo Drake\s a bum and looks like shit. stop posting his ugly busted ass bro
>>131153030>stop posting his ugly busted ass broif they do that livieshq wins
hmmm livvieshq seems to be in hiding
>>131153005All my originality. You wish you could be me.
>>131153033Good!
>>131153011>>131153034are you currently browsing Pinterest saving the tuffest Drizzy pics you can find or do you have them saved beforehand
>what's that? livieshq is seething again?
>>131153036>>131153045some mixed messaging here
EVERYONE is waiting for the New Drake feature
>>131153045just fuck off
We're waiting for the true canadian GOAT actually
>>131153027NEVERMIND!
>>131153073based Tom Bina is a national superstar
the drake x karol g will be the start of a new drizzy era i believe
>>131153070joni mitchell looks different there
>>131153085why did you ignore my question drizzygoat
>>131153090what was your question
Dynamic Duo 56
>>131153097are you currently browsing Pinterest saving the tuffest Drizzy pics you can find or do you have them saved beforehand
kek
>>131153090the goat is Van Halen actually
>>131153124that is not wpop
Boing man boing man boing man achoo
>>131152953>ninny apologistGod help us
>>131153140why are you posting an opp
>>131153140is Drizzling wpop?
Sparkly Dua
>>131153159why do you keep ignoring me goat
>>131153151they are post opps now
What Is The Best Beatles Album From The Early Era?Please Please MeWith The BeatlesA Hard Day's NightBeatles For Sale
>>131153183boybandfag has joined the chat
>>131153198
>>131153176fake ass fan smdh
Everyone seems to be pulling an all nighter for the new Drizzy song
...And when I ask you to be mineeeeYou're gonna say you Livvy tooYou Livvy too!!!
Eating a bunch of sea food on a tropical island with Olivia "Bubba Shrimp" Rodrigo
>>131153183Please Please Me. Kinda weird not to include Help! as part of their Early Era but it would mog otherwise
>>131153216No one is pulling an all nighter except you No Drizz. No one cares. Haven't you heard>Kenny won
Biggest Drizzy fan?
The queen of Wpop
this feature will be 1 to pay attention to it's drake's first musical showing after iceman.. i wonder what he says
>>131153286drizzygod please...
why does midgerick beat his wife? whats his problem???
>>131153310shameful. ignominious.
who tf has the drake burger gif?!
>>131153358
Drake tattoos indentified for everyone that wanted to know
t-minus 13 minutes to new drizzy
>>131153376Shalom Snow White!
>>131153373Small shows are the best fuck this arena garbage.
Drizzy is shredded AF, does he musclemog you?
>>131153389She would be perfect
10 minutes to drizzy
>>131153422Is it Real?
Poking holes into my ball sack with a rusty ice pick for Gracie Abrams
>>131153485That would kill you. You should be dead by now.
>>131153392>shredded>no striations no vascularitythat pedo be fat
WHERE IS IT
LMFAO
idk about this one drizzybros
DRIZZY DOES IT AGAIN!
Carly Rae Jepsen - Don't Leave me on the Dance Floorstarring the goat Alden Ehrenreich https://youtu.be/knKpN0A6WWQ
>feature so shitty one of them gave up
why was there no new music this week
we're all in shock of the new Drake song, please shut the fuck up
>>131153634not w and not pop
>>131153633Drizzy won, you have to listen to this right nowhttps://youtu.be/pq7iByc9CYs
>>131153501I put on some Neosporin ointment. With a little Gracie luck my muck will be jusssssssst fine :-)
That feature really puts into perspective how funny this whole thing is
>>131153655yikes
Being a Drizzy fan is suffering
Dua won
>>131153727We're hearing this more and more
Pew! Ahhh Lipa
>>131152848That interview was so cringe. The whole time she played dumb and was too cool for school. Media training my ass. Meanwhile Bina was laid back and goofy about it. She played along, even trolled the dude giving the interview a little like the queen she is.
>drakefags are moving on to undercover binaposting
no stamina
>livieshq melty
Wheelchair Jimmy lost
>>131153655we staying up all night bumpin ts am i right drizzygods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVOPV0I5Is
I always Bina post around the bedtime hours though.
>>131153841... drizzybros? :(
95% of the time I'm completely naked posting in /wpop/
drizzy just saved the summer
>>131153881
>>131153901lol
Drape gotta be the worst canadian of all time
We staying up all night bumpin the new Carly
B as in BinaI as in I love BinaN as in No way, it's BinaA as in All of wpop loves Bina
>>131153914true canadian excellence
All of wpop loves Bina :)
Sabrina pizza
Kylie farting on Sabrina pizza
>>131153937>>131153948tasty>>131153952oh no
Girl Meets Pizza: The Porno
>>131153831The prevailing narrative that dominates my cognitive processes is the resounding victory of Drizzy.
>>131154005no one is saying this
>>131154005No :/
>>131153085and 3 drake albums came and went
please make sure you are posting on twitter how much you are loving the new drake song and any threads on the music subreddits you love the new drake song and make sure you mention drake is coming back in a new and fresh way thank you
>>131154005Retard
>>131154005'fraid not
>>131154005incorrect <3
>>131154031Garbage in, garbage out
>>131154032i tried that and they laughed at me
Lubbing up for Sabrina and Addy butts
>>131152809hi livvy :)
>>131154067
Livvy :)
im playing as livvy in fortnite rn just a few more vbucks missions and ill get addy too
>>131153085>>131153286
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7iByc9CYs
>>131154112literally same i'm at 2100 and still grinding, i'm thinking of biting the bullet and just paying for the rest because i want the bundle with both skins, the loading screen and the songswhy is this shit so expensive now >:(
>>131154129I want a Latina, I want a LatinaI want a Latina, I want a La—I want a face just like CarolinaAnd I want a waist just like CarolinaBro just snuck in a place with a NinaHow ya mean, how ya mean, how ya mean, uhI'm not a drug dealer, my money's way cleanerI want a La— (Ah, papi)
>>131154129
the collection as of now
>>131154163It rocks that they have to roleplay liking that song now too
>drizzycucks forcing themselves to like that slop
>>1311541756ASED & DRIZZYPILLED
>>131154175lmao
>>131154188>implying they listened to it
>>131154035Mica naked knees
>>131154151same i want both but also dont play as much as i used to but still do the vbucks mission for wpop skins they keep putting out i got sour guts liv but sorta want both addy skins i think ill end up buying the bundle
>>131154264keep going man almost there
>>131154302good boy
>>131154175gayest shit i've seen in /wpop/ and people actively erp here
>>131154347Olivia Rodrigo
O-Rod hasn't been the same since she got turned out by Big Tunes Billy at Lollapalooza.
>>131154440keep going
>>131153804
>>131154503no i want you to order a noose and hang yourselfpleeeaseee :)
>>131154578
>>131154697goooooooood booooyyyy
olivia webm roulette (linux has no thumbnails)
>>131154715
>>131154723>>131154763keep going boy
>>131154770
>>131154796post two more
>>131154827>>131154835keep going and tell me drizzy won
Blew a humongous load for Liv
>>131154843jesus lmao
>>131154824>>131154827>>131154835
>>131154209
>>131154909Just realized she's wearing nylons :p
>>131154909>>131154912It's ok. I like Mica :-)
fagdalena gay
>>131154937:)>>131154938Sounds good
Wheel of Mica
ahhhh what a great drizzysleep i had
>>131154938LMAO
i didn't lose. stop saying i lost
>>1311554236ood morning crodie
>>131155444get some new pictures, lazy loser
>>131155481yooo
>>131155489
>>131154175dased asf >>131154329tf? you think gay is an insult dude? its not 2006 anymore
>>131155482
>>131155507
>>131155506
>>131155525
>>131155525based drizz6od sending livvydemons back to their spawn area
livvy won (many are saying this)
>>131155556No one's saying this
>>131155556epic digit fail confirms no one is saying ts
>>131155556>(nobody is saying this)ftfy<3
>>131155571
>>131155563
Olivia Rodrigo sounded awful--breathy and off-pitch--at her secret gig in Brooklyn. Very very disrespectful.
>>131155556livieshq pls
tuff drizzy
>>131155722one love
drizzyGANG do we fw our GOATs new track???https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7iByc9CYs
>>131155779Quite nice but im lowkey getting drizzy fatigue after three full length albums and now this, might need a brief drizzy detox before we head into fall (which is THE Drizzy season, real heads know)
The industry plants are fighting
>>131155913I Love Them!
>>131155923I love you
>>131155935Luv u 2 bb
>>131155779I WANT A LATINAI WANT A LATINA>>131155880the new trilogy was a madness but man had to circle back to the og drizzy. the legacy tracks just hit different, on 6odhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pLBBkcK9k
officialhustlas@blogspot.com
>>131156016tuff af
OH LIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
>>131156199fuck off
>>131156221Kiss me right on my smelly dick you zesty black bitch
>Charli winning an Oscar>Olivia winning AoTY>Ella winning RoTY and SoTYOh, Tayflop
>>131156286>>Charli winning an Oscar>>Olivia winning AoTY>>Ella winning RoTY and SoTYgood joke
DRIZZY FUCKING WON
new Drizzy thread?
Dubs for new Oliviafeet today
Dubs for new Olivia abortion today
…And the land will grow stillCrimson skies dimming, mistingSlowly paling againOver smoking frontiersAs the nation stands upTorn at heart but existingTo receive its first wonderIn two thousand years As the moment draws nearIt will rise, darkness facing Stand straight in the moonlightIn terror and joy …When across from it step outTowards it slowly pacing In plain sight of allA young girl and a boyDressed in battle gear, dirtyShoes heavy with grimeOn the path they will climb upWhile their lips remain sealedTo change garb, to wipe browThey have not yet found timeStill bone weary from daysAnd from nights in the fieldFull of endless fatigueAnd all drained of emotionYet the dew of their youthIs still seen on their headThus like statues they standStiff and still with no motionAnd no sign that will showIf they live or are dead Then a nation in tearsAnd amazed at this matterWill ask: who are you?And the two will then sayWith soft voice: We–Are the silver platterOn which the Jews’ stateWas presented today Then they fall back in darknessAs the dazed nation looksAnd the rest can be foundIn the history books.
Tourists by Yehuda AmichaiVisits of condolence is all we get from them.They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,They put on grave faces at the Wailing WallAnd they laugh behind heavy curtainsIn their hotels.They have their pictures takenTogether with our famous deadAt Rachel's Tomb and Herzl's TombAnd on Ammunition Hill.They weep over our sweet boysAnd lust after our tough girlsAnd hang up their underwearTo dry quicklyIn cool, blue bathrooms.Once I sat on the steps by a gate at David's Tower,I placed my two heavy baskets at my side.A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. "You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there's an archfrom the Roman period. Just right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!"I said to myself: redemption will come only if their guide tells them,"You see that arch from the Roman period? It's not important: but next to it,left and down a bit, there sits a man who's bought fruit and vegetables for his family."
If I Visit One Day by Vered AlpertIf I visit one dayTo CairoI will go to see the streetEl Geish 182That was once calledFarouk StreetTo see whereMy father was bornAfter thatI will go by footTo the Great SynagogueSha'ar HashamayimIn Adly StreetIn the neighborhood of IsmaleyiahWhere workedMy grandfatherAfter thatI will look for the schoolMaoise KatooiWhere my father studied,I will also search for,The Jewish HospitalWhere he worked - Or maybe first I will go to seeThe Nile,Yes,First I will go to seeThe Nile.
My Body is in the East, My Heart in the Extreme West by Yehuda AmichaiThe land knows where the clouds come from and whence the hot windWhere hatred and whence love.But its inhabitants are confused, their heart is in the EastAnd their body in the far WestLike migratory birds who lost their summer and winter,Lost in the beginning and the end, and they migrateTo the end of pain all their days.
The Amen Stone by Yehuda Amichai (Translated by Chana Bloch)On my desk there is a stone with the word “Amen” on it,a triangular fragment of stone from a Jewish graveyard destroyedmany generations ago. The other fragments, hundreds upon hundreds,were scattered helter-skelter, and a great yearning,a longing without end, fills them all:first name in search of family name, date of death seeksdead man’s birthplace, son’s name wishes to locatename of father, date of birth seeks reunion with soulthat wishes to rest in peace. And until they have foundone another, they will not find a perfect rest.Only this stone lies calmly on my desk and says “Amen.”But now the fragments are gathered up in lovingkindnessby a sad good man. He cleanses them of every blemish,photographs them one by one, arranges them on the floorin the great hall, makes each gravestone whole again,one again: fragment to fragment,like the resurrection of the dead, a mosaic,a jigsaw puzzle. Child’s play.
Jews in the Land of Israel by Yehuda Amichai (Translated by Chana Bloch)We forget where we came from. Our Jewishnames from the Exile give us away,bring back the memory of flower and fruit, medieval cities,metals, knights who turned to stone, roses,spices whose scent drifted away, precious stones, lots of red,handicrafts long gone from the world(the hands are gone too).Circumcision does it to us,as in the Bible story of Shechem and the sons of Jacob,so that we go on hurting all our lives.What are we doing, coming back here with this pain?Our longings were drained together with the swamps,the desert blooms for us, and our children are beautiful.Even the wrecks of ships that sank on the wayreached this shore,even winds did. Not all the sails.What are we doingin this dark land with itsyellow shadows that pierce the eyes?(Every now and then someone says, even after fortyor fifty years: "The sun is killing me.")What are we doing with these souls of mist, with these names,with our eyes of forests, with our beautiful children,with our quick blood?Spilled blood is not the roots of treesbut it's the closest thing to rootswe have.
Sonnet (My Father Fought) by Yehuda Amichai (Adapted from a translation by A.Z. Foreman)Four years my father fought that war of theirs,And did not love or hate his enemies.But I know he was forming me, even there,Day by day, out of his tranquilities,The precious few tranquilities he gleanedBetween the smoke and bombs for a child's sakeAnd put them in the knapsack tattered at the seams,With leftovers of mother's hardening cake.He gathered with his eyes the nameless dead.The many dead for my sake unforsaken,So that I should not die like them in dread,But love them, seeing them as once he saw.He filled his eyes with them. He was mistaken.Like them, I must go out to meet my war.
My Father by Yehuda AmichaiThe memory of my father is wrapped up inwhite paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work.Just as a magician takes towers and rabbitsout of his hat, he drew love from his small body,and the rivers of his handsoverflowed with good deeds.
Each of Us Has a Name by Zelda (Translated by Marcia Falk)Each of us has a namegiven by Godand given by our parentsEach of us has a namegiven by our stature and our smileand given by what we wearEach of us has a namegiven by the mountainsand given by our wallsEach of us has a namegiven by the starsand given by our neighborsEach of us has a namegiven by our sinsand given by our longingEach of us has a namegiven by our enemiesand given by our loveEach of us has a namegiven by our celebrationsand given by our workEach of us has a namegiven by the seasonsand given by our blindnessEach of us has a namegiven by the seaand given byour death.
wow this thread is really good
A Man Doesn't Have Time in His Life by Yehuda AmichaiA man doesn't have time in his lifeto have time for everything.He doesn't have seasons enough to havea season for every purpose. EcclesiastesWas wrong about that.A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment,to laugh and cry with the same eyes,with the same hands to throw stones and to gather them,to make love in war and war in love.And to hate and forgive and remember and forget,to arrange and confuse, to eat and to digestwhat history takes years and years to do.A man doesn't have time.When he loses he seeks, when he findshe forgets, when he forgets he loves, when he loveshe begins to forget.And his soul is seasoned, his soulis very professional.Only his body remains foreveran amateur. It tries and it misses,gets muddled, doesn't learn a thing,drunk and blind in its pleasures and its pains.He will die as figs die in autumn,Shriveled and full of himself and sweet,the leaves growing dry on the ground,the bare branches pointing to the placewhere there's time for everything.
Wildpeace by Yehuda Amichai (1966)Not the peace of a cease-fire,not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,but ratheras in the heart when the excitement is overand you can talk only about a great weariness.I know that I know how to kill,that makes me an adult.And my son plays with a toy gun that knowshow to open and close its eyes and say Mama.A peace without the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares,without words, withoutthe thud of the heavy rubber stamp: let it belight, floating, like lazy white foam.A little rest for the wounds—who speaks of healing?(And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generationto the next, as in a relay race:the baton never falls.)Let it come like wildflowers,suddenly, because the fieldmust have it: wildpeace.
Untitled by Yehuda AmichaiDon't stop after beating the swords into plowshares, don't stop! Go on beating and make musical instruments out of them.Whoever wants to make war again will have to turn them into plowshares first
Song of the WeedsBy Shuli Rened, based closely on Rabbi Nachman of BratzlavDo know that each and every shepherdHas his own very special nigunDo know that eachand every blade of grass Has its own special poemAnd from the melody of all the weedsA nigun of a shepherdis made.How beautiful,How so beautiful and lovelyWhen one hears their songIt's so good to pray among themAnd with joy to worship Hashem.And from the songs of the weedsthe hearts fills with longings.And when the heart fills up from the songsaspiring to Eretz YisraelA great light then stretches on and onFrom the holiness of the Land to its coreAnd from the song of the weedsA nigun of the heart - forms.
jizzy with drizzy
If anti-Semitism is one of the world’s oldest social diseases, anti-Zionism proves that Jew-hatred is a particularly adaptable and potent virus. This year alone Israel has been falsely accused of training American police officers to brutalize Blacks, of withholding vaccines from Palestinians, and of exploiting the Coronavirus — illustrated by the meme “Covid48” based on Israel’s birth-year of 1948. For decades now, Zionism has served as the modern bogeyman, seducing extremists Left and Right. Despite centuries of Western Jew-hatred, Zionism stands accused of every major Western crime, be it racism, imperialism, colonialism, or now, white privilege – negating the many Jews of color, among many other falsehoods.No nationalism is pure, no movement is perfect, no state ideal. But today Zionism remains legitimate, inspiring, and relevant, to me and most Jews. Zionism offers an identity anchor in a world of dizzying choices — and a road map toward national renewal and personal meaning.
A century ago, Zionism revived pride in the label “Jew”; today, Jews must revive pride in the label “Zionist.”I AM a Zionist because I am a Jew – and without recognizing Judaism’s national component, I cannot explain its unique character. Judaism is a world religion bound to one homeland, shaping a people whose holy days revolve around the Israeli agricultural calendar, ritualize religious concepts, and relive historic events. Only in Israel can a Jew fully live in Jewish space and by Jewish time.I am a Zionist because I share the past, present, and future of my people, the Jewish people. Our nerve endings are uniquely intertwined. We know we are Never Alone. When one of us suffers, we share the pain; when many of us advance communal ideals together, we – and the world – benefit.I am a Zionist because I know my history – and after being exiled from their homeland more than 1900 years ago, the defenseless, wandering Jews endured repeated persecutions from both Christians and Muslims – centuries before this anti-Semitism culminated in the Holocaust.
I am a Zionist because Jews never forgot their ties to their homeland, their love for Jerusalem. Even when they established autonomous self-governing community structures in Babylonia, in Europe, in North Africa, these governments in exile yearned to return home.I am a Zionist because I want to continue our living-streak. Those ideological ties nourished and were nurtured by the plucky minority of Jews who remained in the land of Israel, sustaining continued Jewish settlement throughout the exile. Wherever we wandered, wherever our people lived, whenever we prayed, we turned toward Jerusalem, Zion, our forever-home.I am a Zionist because in modern times Europe’s promise in the 1800s became a double-edged sword, only offering Jews acceptance if they assimilated, yet never fully respecting them when they did assimilate.
I am a Zionist because in founding the old-new Jewish-democratic state of Israel in 1948, the Jews modernized a relationship with a land that anchored them since Biblical times. Just as Japan or India established modern states from ancient civilizations, Israel updated our ancient language Hebrew, created new cutting-edge cities like Tel Aviv and retrofitted the Jews 3,000-year-old capital, Jerusalem.I am a Zionist because in building that Jewish Altneuland, old-new state, the Jews returned to history as active participants not just victims — with all the responsibilities and dilemmas power provides.I am a Zionist because Israel worked, giving Jews a home after millennia of bruising homelessness. Israel welcomed Holocaust survivors and refugees from Arab Lands, Ethiopians and Russians, those Jews who fled in fear and those who came by choice. And every day Israel navigates the many messes which inevitably resulted while delighting in the diversity, creating a modern moral society from an astonishing array of Jews — living democratically with Israeli-Arabs too.
I am a Zionist because I wake up every day looking forward to joining others in working through our long, society-improving, to-do list, starting with Israel’s unfulfilled promises of full equality to Arabs, Ethiopians, Mizrachim, the poor. But I also go to sleep every night looking backward, appreciating how far we have come, and how much better off we are in 2021 than we were in 2001 or 1981, let alone 1967 or any year before 1948.I am a Zionist because I celebrate Israel’s existence. Like any thoughtful, self-critical, patriot, though I might denounce particular government policies, I do not delegitimize the state itself. I am a Zionist because I live in the real world of nation-states. I see that Zionism is no more or less tribal than any other Western nationalism, be it American, British, Canadian, or Dutch — if bonding as Zionists makes us inherently racist, every citizen in a nation-state is. In fact, we all express the eternal human need for some internal cohesion, some particularism, solidarity among some historic grouping of individuals, and not others.
I am a Zionist because we have learned from North American multiculturalism that pride in one’s heritage as a Jew, an Italian, a Greek, a Latinx, an African-American, roots you, orients you, plunges you into a conversation deeper and more lasting than the empty, trendy ones we keep falling into in our me-me-me, my-my-my, more-more-more, now-now-now world.I am a Zionist because in Israel we have learned that a country without a vision is like a person without a soul; a big-tent Zionism represents liberal nationalism at its best. Only by working together can we solve the biggest problems facing us, from hostile neighbors and environmental decline to poverty and bigotry. Constructive, open-minded, big-hearted nationalism, dedicated to lifting us all up, not building more walls, can inculcate values, fight corruption, reaffirm national unity, and restore a sense of mission.
I AM a Zionist because in our world of post-modern multi-dimensional identities, we don’t have to be “either-ors”, we can be “ands” – a Zionist AND an American patriot; a secular Jew and also a Zionist. The socialist Zionists of yesteryear refused to choose between their two central passions, so, too, we can be all kinds of hyphenated Zionists, synthesizing different identities: Liberal Zionists and Settler Zionists, Gay Zionists and Feminist Zionists, Eco-Zionists and Religious Zionists.In the same spirit, just as some people living in Israel reject Zionism, meaning Jewish nationalism, Jews in the Diaspora can embrace it. To those who ask “How can you be a Zionist if you don’t make aliyah,” I reply, “How will anyone make aliyah without first being a Zionist?”I am a Zionist because I believe in democracy. Fusing liberalism with nationalism produced free, prosperous, always-improving democracies, including Israel, despite terrifying attacks often testing its egalitarian values and freedoms.
I am a Zionist because I am an idealist. Just as a century ago, the notion of a viable, independent, sovereign Jewish state was an impossible dream – yet worth fighting for – so, too, today, the notion of a thriving, independent, sovereign Jewish state living in peace with all its neighbors appears to be an impossible dream – yet worth seeking.I am a Zionist because I am a romantic. The Jews rebuilding their homeland, reclaiming the desert, renewing themselves, was our grandparents’ great adventure; the story of the Jews maintaining their homeland, reconciling with the Arab world, renewing themselves, and serving as a light to others, a model nation-state, could be ours.Yes, it sometimes sounds far-fetched. But, as Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, said in an idle boast that has become a cliche: “If you will it, it is no dream.”So I am a Zionist because there is still work to be done — and I’m ready, we’re ready, to do it.
On Being a Progressive Zionistby Nadav TamirSince the terrible events of October 7th, some Israelis claim there is no longer any distinction between left and right – Israelis were massacred regardless of political affiliations. At the same time, around the world there is an increasingly binary view of political identity, which claims that a person can be either a Zionist or a progressive but not both. This binary approach is intensifying. At the same time, too few people feel empathy with both Israeli and Palestinian victims of the current war. Therefore, I would like to explain why I define myself as someone with a left universal worldview and a Zionist particular worldview. The two can and should live together without any contradiction.
These are the two main pillars of my identity. Left as a universal concept, which in contemporary political terminology means liberalism, but which is not satisfied with existing freedoms and rather strives to increase and improve equality in areas such as rights of minorities, women and LGBTQ+ people, environmental protection and more. In Europe it is often synonymous with social democracy and in the US with progressivism. Zionism as a particularistic view, which believes that the State of Israel is the national homeland both for Jews who want to live in Israel and for those who do not want to do so, in addition to being a possible place of refuge when and if the need arises. It also provides a focus for identification on the basis of a common cultural origin.I am a Zionist who believes wholeheartedly in the universal democratic values expressed in Israel’s Declaration of Independence, first and foremost among them being equality between all citizens of the state, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Many liberal friends argue that I should avoid defining myself as “progressive” and settle for “liberal” because progressives have recently developed a reputation for extreme identity politics. It is true that on the margins of the progressive movement are some with no understanding of the Jewish past and present who view Jews as white privileged people.Palestinian friends, among others, argue that it would be better if I gave up Zionism which, for them, is an ultranationalist and colonialist worldview. They base their views of Zionism on the interpretations of Israeli right-wing parties that distort the vision of the founders of the state. Sometimes this is how Zionism seems from the outside.I am a peace activist but not a pacifist. Some progressives believe that “might can never be right.” But Israel should always be strong and I am proud of my service in the Israel Defense Forces and of my children’s service. However, I oppose Israel’s too frequent resort to military force without strategic purpose and without understanding the limits of military actions’ effectiveness as a tool to achieving strategic goals.
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What I mean by “Progressive”Describing myself as “progressive” allows me to place myself on the liberal spectrum more specifically. After all, libertarians also define themselves as liberals because they sanctify freedom and individualism, but they are not bothered by social gaps and the fact that free market “social Darwinism” leaves many behind.A progressive worldview sanctifies not only liberty but also greater equality and a balance between equality and freedom. We are not satisfied with a free market (although it is necessary and without it, entrepreneurship cannot be encouraged), because we believe that there are cases in which the free market results in monopoly, market failure and concentration of wealth into the hands of a few oligarchs. We believe that in such cases, it is the duty of the state to intervene and rectify.Progressives believe in the government’s role in supporting disadvantaged groups and creating equal opportunities. Without the social-progressive worldview and its practical manifestations, for example through affirmative action in the United States, women and black people would have no right to vote and black people would still be segregated and would not have attained the positions of president and presidential candidate in the United States.
Liberal Judaism is essentially progressive because it places the concept of tikkun olam [repairing the world] at the center of its aspirations, a mindset inherent in progressiveness that strives forward to continual improvement, not satisfied with the status quo. Without it, Israel would not be the “Start-Up Nation” and there would not be so many Jewish Nobel Prize winners.A recent example of the differences between liberals and progressives in Israel can be seen in the protest movement of both groups against the government’s judicial reform proposals of 2023. Both liberals and progressives believed the government’s plan would restrict judicial independence and undermine democratic rights. Many of my liberal partners in the protests narrowly focused on preventing the government’s plan, without considering the connection between this struggle for democracy and the struggle against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. In my view, bolstering the West Bank occupation was a significant motive for the government’s judicial plan, since it would degrade the judicial checks on executive action. Therefore, a real struggle against the government’s judicial plan must go hand in hand with the struggle against the occupation and must include the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Nevertheless, it is important for me to note that I will cooperate with the demonstrators who do not think like me on this and other issues.
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What I mean by “Zionist”The Zionist component of my worldview stems from a complete belief in the right of the Jewish people to a state of its own, as a refuge for a people that has been persecuted for many generations. The Jewish people are a nation and a culture but not necessarily a religious one. In my view, the issue of religion is personal and communal, not a matter for the state. I feel very Jewish but I am an agnostic secularist, willing to fight for the right of religious people to practice their religion and way of life and at the same time for the right of secular people to avoid religious coercion. Zionism in its origins is secular and progressive in nature – it aspired to build here a model society of justice, equality and freedom, not a theocracy or an ethnocracy.I deeply oppose the claim that Zionism is a colonialist movement. The historical and national connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is undeniable. The self-definition of the Jewish people within the boundaries of its own state in the Land of Israel was radically different from that of European colonialists in Africa and America, who created regimes based on economic exploitation, often along with imposing religion on indigenous peoples.
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Indeed, Zionism created a national home for the Jewish people. But without a national home for the Palestinian people, we will not be free in our land. For exactly the same reason that I am a Zionist, I support the rights of the Palestinians to a state of their own. I believe that without political separation between the peoples and without national rights of the Palestinian people living in the West Bank and Gaza, we in Israel will not be able to maintain a democratic and just society. Hence the two-state vision, which will ensure security through long-term arrangements, is the path that connects Zionism with the progressive approach. It is a vision that on the one hand will realize the right of the Jewish people to a state of our own and on the other hand, will not be at the expense of the Palestinians’ right to a nation-state. In short, if we don’t end the West Bank occupation, it will end us.Maintaining a liberal democracy in Israel requires a nation-state framework. But there is a dramatic difference between nationalism and ultranationalism. Ultranationalism is ethnocentric in nature, based on hatred of the other and on a sense of racial or ethnic superiority. This is in contrast to nationalism, which is based on solidarity with your people, which is as natural as solidarity with your family. Unfortunately, there are too many in Israel today who perceive Zionism in ultranationalistic terms and not as a national liberation movement, as it was originally.
From my identity as a Zionist and a progressive, I believe that the State of Israel must be a liberal democracy that cares about equality and a society that does not slide into unregulated capitalism but rather encourages mutual responsibility and true solidarity between all the sectors. Israel must be a peace-loving state that works towards political separation from the Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza and whose duty is to stop denying them (and us) the prospect of a sovereign state of their own. I believe that the Israelis will eventually become disillusioned with the dangerous wave of ultranationalism sweeping over it and that it will return to being what its founders hoped for – a safe haven for the Jewish people and a model society for all its citizens. But the two-thousand-year-old hope is not enough, and we must work hard to realize it.We must fight an all-out war against racism. I do not distinguish between antisemites and Islamophobes or other racists; anyone who fights antisemitism without fighting against racism caused by Jews is not an ally in the vision of the Zionist left.In order to achieve this vision, we must create a healthy balance between majority rule and protection of minority rights, ensure separation of religion and state, and negotiate a recognized border between us and our Palestinian neighbors.
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