{"id":358,"date":"2009-01-08T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/will-israel-split-americas-rel.html"},"modified":"2009-01-08T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:29:07","slug":"will-israel-split-americas-rel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/will-israel-split-americas-rel.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Israel Split America&#8217;s Religious Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Steve Waldman asks the question whether the current crisis <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/01\/will-israel-split-americas-rel.html\">will split the religious left<\/a>. \u00a0He predicts:<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;Most likely what will happen next is that an over-reaction from the Protestant left will prompt American Jews into an uncomfortable (but familiar) defensive crouch in which they suppress their anguish and in many cases disgust about Israel and go forth with a fulsome defense of Israel. Which will make the Protestant left ratchet up its rhetoric further, etc.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">It reminds me of an article I wrote early on at Beliefnet called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/Protestant\/Mainline\/A-House-Divided.aspx\">A House Divided<\/a>, about embodying both my progressive protestant (Walter Rauschenbusch) and progressive yet zionist (Louis D. Brandeis) ancestry, and how these both of these traditions influenced my understanding of the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">I am not sure that the religious left needs to be\u00a0ultimately\u00a0divided as Waldman warns. There are many Jews who are openly <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/a-strategy-to-end-the-israelpa.html\">questioning this offensive<\/a> in Gaza and the horror that it has produced in the lives of Palestinians. \u00a0Likewise most liberal protestants, while\u00a0critiquing\u00a0this offensive and settler activity, continue as stalwart supporters of the right of Israel and Israelis to live in peace without\u00a0harassment. \u00a0 Muslims in America also generally support the right of Israel to exist in peace and tend to align themselves with more progressive Jews and Christians on ending terrorism, yet vehemently arguing for the rights of Palestinians to live in dignity and for their homeland. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">It is not so important that the religious left be split or not. \u00a0What is important is that the world not be split. \u00a0The key is to be even handed as we offer critiques of offenders and support of victims and call for an end to violence on both sides.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Waldman asks the question whether the current crisis will split the religious left. \u00a0He predicts: &#8220;Most likely what will happen next is that an over-reaction from the Protestant left will prompt American Jews into an uncomfortable (but familiar) defensive crouch in which they suppress their anguish and in many cases disgust about Israel and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,15,2,9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defining-progressive","category-jews","category-muslims","category-religion-in-the-public-square","category-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will Israel Split America&#039;s Religious Left? 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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