Benyamin Korn, MA Biography
- Title:
- Member of the Board of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA)
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“The WJW’s March 13 editorial, ‘Michael Oren’s unilateral withdrawal,’ argued that ‘the two-state solution is the best Zionist option.’ Is it really?… If there was a Palestinian state in Judea-Samaria, terrorists with rockets would be hitting synagogues in Jerusalem, shopping malls in Tel Aviv and airplanes taking off from Ben-Gurion airport. No, the current Israeli-Palestinian situation is not ideal. But the fact is that for nearly 50 years — ever since Israel won Judea-Samaria in the 1967 war — Israel has been able to maintain a reasonable level of security; Israelis have had access to Jewish religious sites in the territories, which the previous Arab rulers denied; Jerusalem has been reunited; and Israel has remained both Jewish and democratic, despite all the doomsayers’ predictions. The status quo is far preferable to the creation of a Palestinian state in Israel’s backyard.”
Cowritten with Moshe Phillips, “Zionist Option Not What You Think,” a letter submitted to the Washington Jewish Week, Mar. 19, 2014
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Board Member, Religious Zionists of America (RZA)
- Chairman, RZA-Philadelphia (Religious Zionists of America)
- Founder, Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin
- Founder, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)
- Former Associate Director, David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
- Former Executive Editor, The Jewish Exponent
- Education:
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- MA, International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
- BA, Journalism, Temple University
- Other:
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- Twitter handle: @BenyaminKorn
- Also known as “Buddy” Korn
- Son of Bertram Korn, former Rabbi of Philadelphia’s Keneseth Israel, and Rita Korn, heir to the Pep Boys auto-repair fortune.
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