Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews

Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews

Author	Rabbi Meir Kahane
Language	English
Genre	Political
Publisher	Lyle Stuart
Publication date	1987
ISBN	9780818404382

Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews is an English-language book created by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1987 and published via Lyle Stuart.^[1]

Plot and History

The book is a manifesto that espouses oppositional beliefs against modern-day Israel, including the formation of the Israeli government as a Western-styled democracy and the allowing of non-Jews, especially Arabs, to become a majority ethnic group in the Jewish state of Israel where, Meir Kahane states, that the ideology of Zionism can not exist without the sentiments of Kahanism.^[2] He also writes against the crime of racism he was charged with in 1980, stating that without the beliefs of racism and anti-Arabism a Jewish state can not thrive and deems it hypocritical that he was charged with racism for wanting a majority Jewish state with the implications of apartheid in Israel.^[3] As in his book, They Must Go, Kahane calls for complete racial segregation of Palestinian Arabs and Arabs in general with Jews in Israel, but in this book he also puts out the ideas that Arabs may attempt to get with young Jewish women to either convert them to Islam or rape them.^[4] Kahane also states in the book that Israel is "schizophrenic" for wanting both a Zionist state and a democratic state while maintaining its Jewish majority.^[5] It's urged in the book that American Jews make aliyah and emigrate to Israel as a mitzvah and is considered obligated by all Jews around the world.^[6]

See also

• They Must Go

References

1. Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews. Lyle Stuart. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8184-0438-2.
2. Roth-Rowland, Natasha (2021-12-30). "Is Kahane more mainstream than American Jews will admit?". +972 Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
3. Magid, Shaul (2021-10-12). "American, Racist, Jewish". Tablet. ISSN 1551-2940. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
4. Bar, Neil (2024-11-12). "Admonitory and utopian: the algorithmic interpretation of Rabbi Meir Kahane's historical narratives". Patterns of Prejudice: 1–21. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2024.2394274. ISSN 0031-322X.
5. Burack, Emily (2021-10-11). "How Meir Kahane's extremist ideas entered the Jewish mainstream". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
6. Goldman, Samuel (2022-07-05). "The Apocalyptic Visions of Jacob Taubes and Meir Kahane". Mosaic. Retrieved 2024-12-05.