No Greeks or Germans Allowed: Yoram Hazony’s Anglo-Hebrew Nationalism

The main purpose of Hazony’s book is to make westerners support Israel. He states that Israel is his first concern and dedicates large portions of the book to the Jewish state’s plight. His goal is made easier when he argues that the Torah provides the only basis for solid nationalism.

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Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering

Conservative values wrapped in religious training will be the political vehicle to put the “right” ideas, attitudes, and conduct into people’s heads. A competition of ideas concerning which if any traditions should be followed, an intellectual rivalry about alternative notions of “tradition” and its appropriate content, is not what Hazony wants. He says that the bedrock of American traditionalist conservatism is Judaism and Christianity, and these must be reintroduced into the curriculum and taught to every young American.

Storm in a Neo-con Teapot

As his name suggests in Hebrew, Hazony is a visionary. His overweening ambition, which is now taking shape, is to establish a university in Jerusalem in which the various fields of knowledge, from philosophy to mathematics (including, for example, “The Lord of the Rings,” one of his favorite books), will be interpreted from a conservative Jewish and Zionist perspective. “If my university is not established,” he told a senior member of the Shalem Center not long ago, “Zionism will have no future, the Jewish people will have no future and, I dare to say, the West will have no future, either.”

RIGHT-WING ISRAELI AUTHOR WRITES “THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM” — AND ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSES ITS PITFALLS

Today, the nationalists seem to have found one: “The Virtue of Nationalism,” by the conservative Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony. Among other plaudits, the book was recently awarded “Conservative Book of the Year” by an influential conservative campus organization. If nothing else, the award is an indicator of where conservative thought is headed.