Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews

{{Short description|1987 book by Rabbi Meir Kahane}}

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| author = Rabbi Meir Kahane

| isbn = 9780818404382

| pub_date = 1987

| language = English

| genre = Political

| publisher = Lyle Stuart

| image = Cover photo of the Book Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews.jpg

| image_size = 150px

}}

Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews is a 1987 book by Rabbi Meir Kahane, published by Lyle Stuart.

Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews is a manifesto that espouses oppositional beliefs against modern-day Israel. This includes forming 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. According to Kahane, the ideology of Zionism can not exist without the sentiments of Kahanism.{{Cite web |last=Roth-Rowland |first=Natasha |date=2021-12-30 |title=Is Kahane more mainstream than American Jews will admit? |url=https://www.972mag.com/kahane-american-jews-magid-review/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=+972 Magazine |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Magid |first=Shaul |date=2021-10-12 |title=American, Racist, Jewish |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/meir-kahane-shaul-magid-excerpt |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Tablet |issn=1551-2940}}

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.{{Cite journal |last=Bar |first=Neil |date=2024-11-12 |title=Admonitory and utopian: the algorithmic interpretation of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s historical narratives |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2024.2394274 |journal=Patterns of Prejudice |language=en |pages=1–21 |doi=10.1080/0031322X.2024.2394274 |issn=0031-322X|url-access=subscription }} 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.{{Cite web |last=Burack |first=Emily |date=2021-10-11 |title=How Meir Kahane's extremist ideas entered the Jewish mainstream |url=https://www.jta.org/2021/10/11/culture/how-meir-kahanes-ideas-entered-the-jewish-mainstream |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Samuel |date=2022-07-05 |title=The Apocalyptic Visions of Jacob Taubes and Meir Kahane |url=https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/history-ideas/2022/07/the-apocalyptic-visions-of-jacob-taubes-and-meir-kahane/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Mosaic}}