The New Jewish Question: A Gentile American Ally's View (December 2025)


7:31 AM Saturday.

Let me begin by suggesting that "The New Jewish Question" from a Gentile American ally's point of view is more like ten questions in one, as of December 2025:

  1. Does Hashem Exist?
  2. Are Jews a Chosen People of Hashem as described in the Tanakh and revealed in world history?
  3. Is there a kind of faith in Jesus that grafts Gentiles into the Commonwealth of Israel without violating the tenets of Judaism?
  4. What is the nature of antisemitism and how can it be defeated in Israel and the Diaspora?  
  5. What is the role of Diaspora Jewry in Jewish sovereignty?
  6. Is Zionism racism?
  7. Is Israel an apartheid state?
  8. Did the Netanyahu government commit genocide in Gaza following the October 7 terrorist attack?
  9. Is a negotiated two-state solution the best possible outcome for Israel?
  10. What needs to be done next to move UN Security Council Resolution 2803 forward in a balanced way?   

Now for some background. Here is my Google Gemini question list:

  • What is the main argument of Marx in The Jewish Question?
  • Was Bruno Bauer Jewish or Gentile?
  • How did Moses Hess address the Jewish Question?
  • Was there any history of the phrase "The Jewish Question" in print prior to the essay by Marx, or did Marx essentially establish the concept?
  • The Nazis used the phrase "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" as a euphemism for genocide, is that correct?
  • Have any post-Shoah Jewish scholars used the term "Jewish Question" to refer to the question of the Jewish role in God's world historical plan, or for the question of the borders of Israel, or for the persistent problem of antisemitism despite the founding of Israel - is antisemitism still in some sense an open Jewish Question for Jewish scholars and theologians?
  • What has been the reception and status of The Jewish Question by Marx in contemporary communist China?
  • Does China officially subscribe to a doctrine of human emancipation versus or in distinction to political emancipation?
  • How did China come to align with the Palestinian Islamists instead of the Labor Zionists in the 1960s?
  • Did the Soviet Union end relations with Israel after the 6-Day War, and if so, when did the Soviets or Russia eventually restore relations?
  • Did the Soviets borrow from the Chinese Communists to develop anti-Zionist propaganda following the 6-day war?
  • In contemporary Chinese discourse, does "The Jewish Question" have more of a neutral Marxist connotation, or a dehumanizing Nazi connotation?
  • Have the events since October 7 explicitly reopened the wound of the Jewish Question for any Jewish historians and scholars - is there a sense among Jewish scholars since October 7 that the Jews once again face an existential crisis?
  • Have any of the academic publications that mention the "New Jewish Question" been Israeli publications?
  • What was the reception of "The New Jewish Question" by Trigano among Jews in Israel and Diaspora?
  • Say more about Boyarin's definition of "The New Jewish Question" and its reception by Jews in Israel and Diaspora.
  • Is Boyarin arguably a "cultural Zionist"?
  • Have any Zionist scholars written a major rebuttal to Boyarin?
  • Does Boyarin explain the similarity and difference between the old Jewish question and the new Jewish question in his seminal essay?
  • Have any Christian theologians written about the Jewish question from a theological perspective?
  • Did Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jacques Maritain both refer explicitly to the Jewish Question in their written works?
  • Say more about Maritain - was he a priest?

And here is the answer thread:


My next step? I am going to make a quick initial study of the following:

  • One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Friedman).
  • A One-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Equality for All (Robinson).
  • The Case for a Two-State Solution: Building Peace Between Israel and Palestine (Ahmed).
  • The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto (Boyarin).

I am giving myself the rest of the day for this study.

End 9:12 AM.

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