The following cover-stories and analysis articles by Gol Kalev explore the state of affairs between Europe and Jerusalem.  

In doing so, examining undercurrents in both Europe and Zionism.

---

Featured Europe articles: Europe should benefit from Herzl’s vision

Europeanism vs. Americanism – a new global philosophical divide?

 

Featured Jerusalem articles: Jerusalem Day – the return of Judaism to Zion

Israel’s relationship with its Muslim minority as a role-model for Europe

 

Latest: America’s Divine-right-republic vs Europe’s no Divine

APPLYING JUDAISM 3.0 to EUROPE & JERUSALEM: Gol Kalev shows how Israel-bashing is today's existential threat to Judaism, having both a populous retail component - Occupationalism, and institutional destruction mechanisms that deploy modern-day blood-libels. In such circumstances, Hasbara (Israeli PR) is futile. Yet, a broad global recognition that Judaism has transformed to Judaism 3.0, and Zionism is now its anchor, would dramatically mitigate the threat. It would turn existential threats to enablers of  survivability of Judaism and could pave the path to peace

---

A PREEMPTIVE PEACE CONFERENCE SIMILAR TO PARIS 1919/VIENNA 1815 COULD HELP EUROPE COPE WITH NEW GLOBAL REALITIES AND CHART THE ROAD FOR THE NEXT CENTURY OF PEACE IN EUROPE

THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE

AS THE DEBATE ABOUT THE CORE ESSENCE OF EUROPEANISM INTENSIFIES, SOME EUROPEANS VIEW ISRAEL AS A ROLE-MODEL AND SCION OF TRUE EUROPEAN LIBERALISM

THE RESURFACING OF EUROPEAN COLONIALISM

EUROPE NEVER WENT THROUGH A PROCESS OF MENTAL DECOLONIZATION. IS THIS THE REASON EUROPE INCREASINGLY BEHAVES IN NEOCOLONIALIST WAYS?

 HIJACKING THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE

THE ULTIMATE ADVERSARY OF PALESTINIANS MAY NOT BE ISRAEL, BUT THOSE IN EUROPE AND AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE HIJACKED THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE, AND ROB PALESTINIANS OF PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY

WHAT INSPIRED HERZL’S ZIONISM?

IN THE COVER-STORY OF HERZL-2019 MAGAZINE,  GOL KALEV OFFERS NEW INSIGHT INTO THE ORIGINS OF ZIONISM, WHICH HERZL ESTABLISHED AS A JEWISH IDEAL

HERZL AND ZIONISM BETWEEN FRANCE AND BRITAIN

THE EPIC STORY ABOUT HOW TWO OFFICERS, ALFRED DREYFUS (FRANCE) AND ALBERT GOLDSMID (BRITAIN), IMPACTED HERZL’S VISION AS HE WAS CRAFTING HIS ZIONIST IDEAS, AND HOW DIVERGING ATTITUDES TOWARDS JEWISH NATIONALISM IN FRANCE AND BRITAIN REMAIN RELEVANT TODAY!

Join our MAILING-LIST

Europe and Jerusalem is now on Twitter. Follow us: @europejerusalem

For comments and inquiries, please email: info@EuropeandJerusalem.com

 

 

GOL KALEV’S ARTICLES BY CATEGORY:

Europe and its relation to Jerusalem:

Europe and Jerusalem: a 2,300 year-old conflict

Herzl planted the seeds for a better Europe in Jerusalem

Europe should benefit from Herzl’s vision

Applying Herzl’s response to European opposition to Jerusalem

Jerusalem: Europe vs. America

100 years of European involvement in Jerusalem:

100 years of intervention: Britain enters Jerusalem, Europe stays

70 Year-old attempt to downplay European guilt 

20 Years of European escalation towards Jerusalem

10 Years of European obsession with Jerusalem – possible reasons

Europe and Jerusalem in fiction: Wonder Woman fights European incitement

.  .

The journey back to Jerusalem:

1894: What inspired Herzl’s Zionism?

1895: Herzl between Dreyfus and Goldsmid; France and Britain

1896: The day that changed the course of Zionism

1897: Herzl vs Ahad Ha’Am – Outsider vs Establishment 

1897: From Basel to Jerusalem – a look at the first Zionist Congress

1898: Herzl’s Jerusalem visit – an inflection point in Zionism

1917: Balfour awakened – 100 years to the Balfour Declaration

1917: Enter the British – 100 years to British conquest of Jerusalem 

1920: French invasion triggers first shots between Israelis and Arabs

1948:  The outbreak of war and the heroic story of the Lamed-Heh

1948: Herzl’s birthday gift

1967: The return of Judaism to Zion 

2019: Israel’s four cups of Independence

2020: From Aliya to Cloud-Zionism

   

Zionism & Israeli society:

Jewish transformation – Judaism 3.0

Israel abandoning its secular roots

The new secular: The Datlaf (sometimes religious)

The Jewish religion is intertwined with Zionism

The new Aliya: Contribution of vacation homes owners

Rising nationalism vs. Globalization – how it effects the Jews

Israeli society: From European to American influences

The beginning of understanding Herzl and his Zionism

Zionism & Wine

Celebrating freedom through Israeli wine

    

Life in Europe:

Rise of Germany’s far-right and Jerusalem: Impact of German elections

Rise of Austria’s far-right and Jerusalem: Impact of Austrian elections

Brexit and Jerusalem: Impact of British elections

Life in Jerusalem:

The Jerusalem fast-train vs. the powerful media

JerusAviv? Impact of the upcoming fast-train to Tel Aviv

The first electric train reaches Jerusalem!

Shift in the Jerusalem experience: Shuk Mahaneh Yehuda

Jerusalem’s Shuk as ‘Beacon to the world’

Haredi Spring: Celebration of Zionism in Shaarei Hessed

Impact of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem

The Rising Jerusalem art scene

 

 

Interviews about Jerusalem and Zionism:

Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau: The world has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust

Prime-Minister Morawiecki: Poland fully supports Israel’s sovereignty

Victoria Coates: Israel is in the trenches with the United States

Kenneth Bialkin: Jerusalem as a destination-city

Josh Weston: Bringing American CEOs to Israel

Amb. Vivian Bercovici: Revolutionizing diplomacy

Oded Revivi: Bottom-up peace

Naomi Chazan: In defense of Israel’s civil society

Elyakim Haetzni: Coexistence!

Yossi Beilin: Wanted – a Border

Prof. Avineri: Herzl’s Altneuland can be used as a mirror to judge our society

    

 .

All articles were written by Gol Kalev and published in the Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Report, Foreign Policy, the Daily Wire, Newsweek, The Media Line and Israel Hayom between 2015-2022 

For inquiries and comments, please email: info@europeandjerusalem.com