Tuesday, August 3, 2010

What Would Brandeis Do?

From Jeffery Goldberg's interview with Jeffery Rosen.

Did he get into trouble as a result? Brandeis's embrace of Zionism came only a few years before his Supreme Court nomination, and anti-Semitism certainly played some role in the opposition his nomination... Why are there no figures of Brandeis's stature who embrace Zionism with similar bravery today? ...perhaps the moral and political stakes seemed clearer in Brandeis's day than they do in ours. Brandeis thought that for Jews to be indifferent to Israel's right to exist also meant denying their own identity as Americans and Jews, and perhaps we need to remember his challenge today.

0 comments: