- America#s last taboo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
- Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
- Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
- Blaming The Victims
Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and#above all#honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
- The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
- The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
- The Case Against Israel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
- Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Although you wouldn't know it if you followed Jewish life simply through the activities of such major Jewish communal bodies as the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League, the extent to which the eight million Jews of the Diaspora identify with Israel is increasingly open to question (much to the horror of the Zionist-oriented Jewish establishment).
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
- Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
- Cult, Ghetto, and State
The Persistence of Jewish Question
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
- Gilad Atzmon
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist, novelist and anti-Zionist political activist and writer.
- Ha'am, Ahad
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Hebrew essayist and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. (1856-1927).
- Hasbara
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
- How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
- If I Am Not For Myself
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America#s posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America#s national interest nor Israel#s long-term interest.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2009
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- Israel's 'left' apologists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
- An Issue Of Justice
Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. Finkelstein cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
- The Lion and the Gazelle
On Jewish History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
- Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
- New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
- The Olga Document
For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2004
A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
- Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
- Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
- Plowshares into Swords
From Zionism to Israel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
- The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.
- Post-Zionism Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
What do we need to do to let go of all fear that separates Jew and Arab, and embrace a truly pluralistic, secular, democratic, multicultural and loving society?
- A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
- Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
- Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
- Setting the Record Straight
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2005
There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Speaking the truth to Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic.
- A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
- A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
- What is Anti-Semitism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
- Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power # Western support and complicity # is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
- Why Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
- Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
- Zionism doesn#t define Jews: It divides us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Zionist theory denied the legitimate presence of an emerging, indigenous nation in Palestine. Zionist practice ensured its dispossession and exile.
- Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
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