It is, on the basis of what you quote, kind of weird.
That article did not seem to be alone of its kind; although I will admit that I would have been very surprised if the Zionist Organization of America had weighed in any differently. It's also the amount of personal vitriol expended on Kushner that startles me. I can't tell whether the uproar really is about him, or whether he's simply become the focus of some free-floating political defensiveness, and I know so little about Zionists or pro-Israel activists (or their opposite numbers) that I don't even know the questions to start asking.
I wonder whether maybe he's just getting unfairly conflated with all the people out there who use Zionism as a code for Judaism and proceed to go on and on and on about its evils while protesting that they aren't antisemitic at all, it's just those Zionists and Israelis.
Which speaks to your comment about homework: that's not an equation that should make sense to anyone familiar with Kushner's work. I am thinking particularly of Angels in America and A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, but I am not even sure that Munich should be construed as anti-Israel. And the fact that he felt compelled to write an open letter to Jehuda Reinharz is a little troubling. It's a good letter, and I think it would have made a good speech, but it shouldn't have needed to be written.
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That article did not seem to be alone of its kind; although I will admit that I would have been very surprised if the Zionist Organization of America had weighed in any differently. It's also the amount of personal vitriol expended on Kushner that startles me. I can't tell whether the uproar really is about him, or whether he's simply become the focus of some free-floating political defensiveness, and I know so little about Zionists or pro-Israel activists (or their opposite numbers) that I don't even know the questions to start asking.
I wonder whether maybe he's just getting unfairly conflated with all the people out there who use Zionism as a code for Judaism and proceed to go on and on and on about its evils while protesting that they aren't antisemitic at all, it's just those Zionists and Israelis.
Which speaks to your comment about homework: that's not an equation that should make sense to anyone familiar with Kushner's work. I am thinking particularly of Angels in America and A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, but I am not even sure that Munich should be construed as anti-Israel. And the fact that he felt compelled to write an open letter to Jehuda Reinharz is a little troubling. It's a good letter, and I think it would have made a good speech, but it shouldn't have needed to be written.