The spiritual void at the heart of Israeli militarism
b'\\u201cI identify as an Arab Jew,\\u201d Hadar Cohen recently wrote in +972 Magazine. \\u201cMy family has lived in Jerusalem for over 10 generations, and my other ancestral cities include Aleppo in Syria, Baghdad in Iraq, and Shiraz in Iran, along with a small village in Kurdistan.\\u201d And yet, the Zionist project has no place for Mizrahi Jews like Cohen. \\u201cThere is no space for Arabness in Zionism. I need to repress, erase, and hide my Arab lifestyle and assimilate into European notions of Jewishness.\\u201d
In the first segment of this week\\u2019s Marc Steiner Show, we bring you the latest installment of our ongoing series \\u201cNot in Our Name,\\u201d which highlights the diverse voices of Jewish activists, artists, intellectuals, and others who are speaking out against the Israeli occupation. In this installment, Marc talks with Cohen about living as an Arab Jew in Israel\\u2019s \\u201cracial caste system,\\u201d and about the crisis of
spirituality underpinning Israel\\u2019s militarist occupation. Hadar Cohen is a Mizrahi feminist multi-media artist, Jewish mystic, healer, and educator. She is the founder of Feminism All Night, a project that designs communal immersive learning experiences about feminism and spirituality.'