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Yoram Reuben Hazony (born 1964) [1] is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute [ 2 ] in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation . [ 3 ]
Hazony traces the history of what he calls ‘Anglo-American Conservatism’ from the jurisprudence of English judge John Fortescue to Richard Hooker, Edward Coke, John Selden, and Edmund Burke through to many of the leaders of the American Revolution, particularly George Washington, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton.
[1] [2] In particular, Hazony argues that nationalism uniquely provides "the collective right of a free people to rule themselves." [2] According to Hazony, national identity is based not on race or biological homogeneity, but on "bonds of mutual loyalty" to a shared culture and a shared history that bind diverse groups into a national unit. [3]
[24]: 1099 In The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony criticizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke for creating a "dream world" where the "Jewish and Christian world" have "no place to exist". [16]
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The body of a British-Israeli hostage is among six that have been recovered from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has said.. In a statement the Israeli army said that its forces reclaimed the ...
From 1979 until 1994, elections were conducted using first past the post (FPTP), with Great Britain divided into numerous single member constituencies. From 1999 through 2019, however, mainland elections used the d'Hondt method of proportional representation (PR), with 11 multi-member constituencies corresponding to Scotland, Wales and the ...