Re: [Salon] About Kohelet Policy Forum


Why is Dreher living in Budapest?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Dreher


On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 08:11:24 AM GMT+5, Tom Pauken via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:


Let me definitely say that the American Conservative is not under the control of Yoramy Haronzy. The phony Edmund Burke society is controlled by him and his colleague , but it is a different organization designed to mislead conconsevatives. Rod Dreher is no longer with the American Conservative. Tom Pauken

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On Mar 25, 2023, at 9:53 PM, Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com> wrote:


It’s late so I don’t want to provide any more evidence than I have below, which is available, nor do I want to take the time to explain this as political theory, and I don’t expect all to understand it as political theory anyway . . ., but here is TAC’s promotion of the NaziCons, using the abbreviation appropriate when in Rome as with the NaziCon starlet Giorgia Meloni, TAC’s favorite NaziCon pinup, and with a couple TAC affiliates here as well: 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/yoram-hazony-the-next-conservatism/



















THE RIGHT RIGHT 






The following statement was drafted by Will Chamberlain, Christopher DeMuth, Rod Dreher, Yoram Hazony, Daniel McCarthy, Joshua Mitchell, N.S. Lyons, John O’Sullivan, and R.R. Reno on behalf of the Edmund Burke Foundation. The statement reflects a distinctly Western point of view. However, we look forward to future discourse and collaboration with movements akin to our own in India, Japan, and other non-Western nations.


(A veritable who’s who below, of the “worst of the worst” Straussian’s, NatCons, New Rightists, Trumpites, or just plain Conservatives, or as known in Israel now: fascists, as part of one coalition of like-minded ideologues, in political theory terms.)

Signed:

Michael Anton
Hillsdale College Kirby Center

Larry Arnn
Hillsdale College

Amber Athey
Spectator

David Azerrad
Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Government

Stephen Bartulica
Center for the Renewal of Culture (Croatia)

Megan Basham
Daily Wire

Rachel Bovard
Conservative Partnership Institute

Michael Brendan Dougherty
National Review

David Brog
Edmund Burke Foundation

Will Chamberlain
Internet Accountability Project

Timon Cline
Modern Reformation

Edward Corrigan
Conservative Partnership Institute

Ken Cuccinelli
Election Transparency Initiative

Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution

Sen. Jim DeMint
Conservative Partnership Institute

Christopher DeMuth
Hudson Institute

Miranda Devine
New York Post

Emile Doak
American Conservative

Rod Dreher
American Conservative

Ben Dunson
American Reformer

Alvino-Mario Fantini
European Conservative (Austria)

Katy Faust
Them Before Us

John Fonte
Hudson Institute

Henry George
Merion West (United Kingdom)

Francesco Giubilei
Nazione Futura (Italy)

David Goldman
Asia Times

Paul Gottfried
Chronicles Magazine

Derryck Green
Project 21

Ofir Haivry
Edmund Burke Foundation (Israel)

Josh Hammer
Newsweek

Grant Havers
Trinity Western University (Canada)

Yoram Hazony
Edmund Burke Foundation (Israel)

Jason Hill
DePaul University

Nate Hochman
National Review

Clifford Humphrey
Troy University

Emily Jashinsky
Federalist

Julie Kelly
American Greatness

Fr. Benedict Kiely
Nasarean.org

Roger Kimball
New Criterion

Charlie Kirk
Turning Point USA

Tom Klingenstein
Claremont Institute

Michael Knowles
Daily Wire

Mark Krikorian
Center for Immigration Studies

Ellen Kryger Fantini
European Conservative

Ryszard Legutko
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Brad Littlejohn
Ethics and Public Policy Center

N.S. Lyons
Upheaval

Daniel McCarthy
Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Michael McKenna
Washington Times

Mark Meadows
Conservative Partnership Institute

Arthur Milikh
Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life

Amanda Milius
AMDC Films

Curt Mills
UnHerd

Joshua Mitchell
Georgetown University

Balázs Orbán
Mathias Corvinus Collegium (Hungary)

James Orr
Cambridge University

John O’Sullivan, CBE
Danube Institute (United Kingdom)

Melissa O’Sullivan
Danube Institute

Matthew Peterson
New Founding

Nathan Pinkoski
Zephyr Institute

Jaime Nogueira Pinto
Futuro Presente (Portugal)

Tomasz Poręba
New Direction (Poland)

Grégor Puppinck
European Centre for Law and Justice (France)

David Reaboi
Claremont Institute

R.R. Reno
First Things

Julio Rosas
Townhall

Helen Roy
Girlboss, Interrupted

Christopher Rufo
Manhattan Institute

Austin Ruse
Center for Family and Human Rights

Saurabh Sharma
American Moment

Marion Smith
Common Sense Society

Nick Solheim
American Moment

Thomas Spence
Regnery Publishing

Daniel Strand
Air War College

Carol Swain
Be The People News

Peter Thiel
Founders Fund

Russ Vought
Center for Renewing America

Ben Weingarten
RealClear

Anna Wellisz
Edmund Burke Foundation

Liz Wheeler
Liz Wheeler Show

Ryan Williams
Claremont Institute

William Wolfe
Center for Renewing America

Scott Yenor
Boise State University








On Mar 25, 2023, at 9:41 PM, Tom Pauken <twpauken@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

This is not the “ideology adopted and promoted by the American Conservative”. Get you facts right. Tom Pauken

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On Mar 25, 2023, at 2:17 PM, Todd Pierce via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:


To supplement this letter by Mr. Brownfeld on what is in fact what U.S. “National Conservatives” are so actively involved in, the Kohelet Policy Forum, with Der Leader, the Israeli Settler Yoram Hazony, and the Tikvah Fund part of that “network,”  which I have addressed repeatedly in my attempt to  show the “true nature” of National Conservatism, the ideology now adopted and promoted by The American Conservative, here is some supplementary material to go with this. 

https://www.vox.com/21355993/trump-israel-yoram-hazony-nationalism-tikvah

BLUF:

"The Israeli-American conservative nexus

"Eli, the West Bank settlement Hazony moved to after finishing his American education in the early 1990s, is one of many illegal Jewish communities in the majority-Palestinian territory. Started by a handful of settlers in 1984, Eli today boasts a population of over 4,000, growth that has come at the expense of nearby Palestinian communities.

"During my trip, I drove up Route 60, the major north-south thoroughfare in the West Bank along which Eli sits. From the highway, Eli doesn’t look like a particularly remarkable place: a collection of the characteristically Israeli light-colored homes with red roofs that dot the West Bank, clearly distinguishable from nearby Palestinian villages.

"You see small communities like this all around the West Bank, each one creating an Israeli-imposed security bubble that can justify land seizures and cut off Palestinian communities from each other. Eli is one cog in the vast machinery of the West Bank occupation; the larger and more entrenched these communities get, the harder it is to imagine Israel ever evacuating them — a seemingly necessary step if a contiguous, viable Palestinian state is to be created.

"Eli is a physical symbol of the most aggressive right-wing form of Israeli nationalism, a religiously informed territorial maximalism that sees Jews and only Jews as the rightful owners of the biblical Holy Land.

. . . 

"Thinkers in the Tikvah orbit generally take an aggressive line on the conflict with the Palestinians, including a hardline defense of the West Bank settlement movement. Their papers and articles defend the wisdom and legality of the settlement enterprise; this June, Leiter published an open letter to American Christians calling on them to lobby Trump on behalf of Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank. It was signed “your friend from Eli.”

“There is no right-wing movement in Israel. What you see is a settler’s movement,” says Stav Shaffir, a former member of the Knesset for the center-left Labor Party.

. . . 

"Hazony, perhaps the paradigmatic case of an Israeli whose worldview has been shaped by time in the States, has been a player in Tikvah-world. The organization provided early funding for perhaps his most influential creation, Jerusalem’s Shalem Center — a right-wing think tank that has morphed into Shalem College, Israel’s first American-style private liberal arts college.
. . . 

"If you read Hazony’s work carefully, it becomes evident that his vision for the global right is a universalization of the Israeli settler’s mindset: a religious nationalism that has some key points of agreement with Trumpists and the European far right.




"Its keynote speakers were some of the leading figures in the post-Trump “future of conservatism” conversations — Sen. Hawley, Fox’s Carlson, and venture capitalist Thiel. Hazony is working with some A-list American talent: Christopher DeMuth, the head of the influential American Enterprise Institute from 1986-2008, currently serves as the chairman of the National Conservatism Conference.

. . . 

"There is an increasing sense of a “nationalist international” — the idea that various right-wing parties need to band together and fight against the liberal-progressive vision for a more globalized world. Some of the efforts to codify this idea, like Steve Bannon’s laughable organization called “The Movement” in Europe, have failed.

"But the success of the American intervention in Israeli politics, and the global rise of Yoram Hazony, shows how it might actually work: how globalization can fuse political traditions of distinct conservative movements, connecting the halls of power in Washington to the settlers in Eli.” Stop


Or as Mussolini’s fascists would have recognized it as, and aspired to: a “Fascist International,” as parties making up “Universal Fascism,” to not use euphemistic language. 




On Mar 25, 2023, at 11:41 AM, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:

From: Allan Brownfeld <abrownfeld@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 25, 2023

This is a letter I have sent to the Washington Post about their full page article about the right-wing Israeli think tank Kohelet.

To the editor,
Washington Post.

The Washington Post has performed a notable public service by publishing the important article, “The Secretive Israeli Think Tank Behind Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul.”

This think tank, Kohelet Policy Forum, has long advocated for annexation of the West Bank, gender segregation inside Israel, and a weaker Supreme Court.  It has contempt for non-Orthodox streams of Judaism and for the rights not only of Palestinians but of the LGBTQ community and of women. It  is largely financially supported by ultra-Orthodox Jewish Americans.

The policies of Israel’s far-right government have been rejected by the overwhelming majority of American Jews, including such traditional supporters of Israel as Abraham Foxman, the long-time leader of the Anti-Defamation League, Prof. Alan Dershowitz of Harvard, and the leaders of Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism. 

When Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who called for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be “wiped out” and said, “there’s no such thing as Palestinians,” visited Washington earlier this month,  no member of the Biden administration would meet with him.  Neither would any of the major American Jewish organizations.  William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations, called his statements “disgusting.”

Zionism itself is becoming a minority view within the Jewish community.  Zionism proclaims that Israel is the “homeland” of all  Jews and that Jews living outside of Israel are in “exile.”  In fact, Judaism is a religion of universal values, not a nationality.  The homeland of Jewish Americans is the United States.  They are American by nationality and Jews by religion, just as other Americans are Protestant, Catholic or Muslim.

In 1841, in the dedication of America’s first Reform synagogue in Charleston, South Carolina, Rabbi Gustav Poznanski told the congregation, “This country is our Palestine, this city our Jerusalem, this house of God our temple.”

Israel would do well to confine its concerns to its own citizens.  Almost all Jewish Americans believe in freedom of religion and separation of church and state.  Israel, sadly, is a theocracy.  Non-Orthodox rabbis cannot perform weddings, conduct funerals, or have their conversions recognized.  In fact, Jews have less religious freedom in Israel than anyplace in the Western world.

Shira Rubin has performed a notable service with her article about Kohelet Policy Forum.
          Sincerely,
                 Allan C. Brownfeld,
                      Editor of ISSUES,
                          The quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism
                                 (www.ACJNA.org)

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