This is a collection of 25 personal stories of Jewish peace activists from Australia, Canada, Israel, the UK and the United States. They focus on the complex and intensely personal journey that Jewish activists go through to free themselves from the hold of Zionist ideology and …
There is an expectation in Jewish communities around the world that all Jews embrace Zionism and offer unquestioning support for Israel ""right or wrong"". Jewish identity and Zionism are commonly and deliberately blurred. Jews who criticise Israel or question Zionism are often …
Israel's Dead Soul
by Project Muse, Salaita, Steven
fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE
How Zionism became an exceptional ideology in the eyes of the West.
In his courageous book, Israel's Dead Soul, Steven Salaita explores the failures of Zionism as a political and ethical discourse. He argues that endowing nation-states with souls is a dangerous phenomenon because it privileges institutions and corporations rather than human bein…
There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. These words by the poet Leonard Cohen could aptly describe this book, which takes history as a witness to the exceptional nature of Zionism in Jewish history. It explains many points of discord between the political id…
