Zionism’s National Project Is Neither “True” Nor “Valid”

Jewish American “Birthright moms” on a 2017 trip to Israel organized by the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) [Photo: Aviram Valdman]

I’ve noticed in reading The New Yorker that I almost always discover the ethnicity/religion of a character in a report when that person happens to be Jewish. Often, it seems to me the mention comes casually, at random, without relevance to the topic at hand.

I have sometimes wondered why that is so. Whatever the reason, such a practice serves to reinforce the idea of…