Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and Anti-Semitism:
Iranian anti-Semitic Bloggers: From Mickey Mouse’s Plot to Gaddafi’s Jewishness (History News Network, 09/06/08)
Iranian anti-Semitic blogs reveal important information that can help us gain a better understanding about the roots and dynamism of anti-Jewish sentiment in Iran. Yet, anti-Semitism has rarely attracted researchers' interest.
Heating Up: The Battle for the Jewish voice and the Jewish soul ((Cult)u're Magazine, 02/06/08)
Op-Ed: Light to the nations (JTA, 16/04/08)
Erstwhile Israeli politician Avraham Burg argues that only in striving to improve the destiny of the entire world can the Jewish nation guarantee its survival and justify its existence.
The Thirteen Principles (Medinat Weimar, 28/03/08)
Medinat Weimar wishes to establish a Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital.
Self-help for self-haters (The Guardian, 14/04/08)
Though my detractors often claim otherwise, I see myself as anything but a "self-hating Jew", and the more vocal I am in my criticism of the Israeli government's crimes, the more credence I give that claim. I passionately love my religion, and just as fervently defend its teachings to the hilt when it comes to how to treat our fellow man. That Zionism has come along, hijacked Jewish doctrines, and twisted them to form part of an all-out supremacist movement is not something I can swallow if I want to stay loyal to the true values of Judaism.
Israel: selling out secularism? (Background Briefing on ABC Radio National Australia, 13/04/08)
The Olmert government is dependent on the support of the extremist, ultra orthodox religious movement in Israel. They now make up 10 per cent of the population, and make no secret of their desire for Israel to become a religiously based state. Reporter Hagar Cohen.
The Burg speaks: Zionism is futile (The Telegraph, JTA, 03/04/08)
It’s been less than a year since Avraham Burg – former Knesset speaker, Jewish Agency chief, and scion of one of Israel’s most illustrious founding families – shocked his countrymen with some harsh appraisals of the Zionist enterprise... On Tuesday, Burg made his first stateside appearance since the controversy.
Zionist rabbis says Torah permits killing Palestinian civilians (The Palestinian Information Center, 06/03/08)
Israel's Jewish critics (The Guardian, 04/03/08)
Anti-Zionism is part of a larger opposition to racism, an expression of solidarity with the Palestinians as victims of injustice.
An invention called 'the Jewish people' (Haaretz, 01/03/08)
... Wrong, says the historian Shlomo Zand, in one of the most fascinating and challenging books published here in a long time. There never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish religion, and the exile also never happened - hence there was no return. Zand rejects most of the stories of national-identity formation in the Bible, including the exodus from Egypt and, most satisfactorily, the horrors of the conquest under Joshua. It's all fiction and myth that served as an excuse for the establishment of the State of Israel, he asserts.
Thinking the Unthinkable (Forward editorial, 28/02/08)
Israel is in a diplomatic and military jam that keeps getting worse, but has no obvious solution. It is rapidly approaching the demographic tipping point, when Palestinian Arabs outnumber Israeli Jews in the land now under Israeli control. When that happens, Israel will find that it has become a minority-rule state, and it will have to make the choice it has avoided up to now: whether to be a Jewish or a democratic state.
There Is More to the ‘Arab Jews’ Controversy Than Just Identity (Forward, 28/02/08)
To be in favour of peace is not anti-Israeli (The Independent, 28/02/08)
Maureen Dowd Tees Up the Modern 'Jewish Question' (Mondoweiss, 12/12/07)
The Jewish Question tormented Europe for centuries. How do emerging nations deal with a state-within-a-state, a people who have been ghettoized and have a corporate sense of themselves as distinct?
Islamophobia and Holocaust Denial (Norman Finkelstein website, 08/12/07)
Some reflections on Holocaust denial in the Muslim world: Finkelstein speaks at Islamophobia conference in Istanbul.
University of Michigan Press to Continue Publishing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism" After Initially Dropping Book Due to Rightwing Criticism (Democracy Now, 29/10/07)
Jewish Glasnost Update: Zionist Panic! (Rootless Cosmopolitan, 23/10/07)
Zionism's Bleak Present (Jerusalem Post, 11/10/07)
"We are all Keynsians now," Richard Nixon famously asserted just as the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes fell into disrepute. Likewise, one could have said with similar confidence in 1989, as Israel's existence reached wide acceptance, "We are all Zionists now." No longer.
Michigan Resumes Distribution of Anti-Israel Book (Inside Higher Ed, 12/09/07)
The book is back, but the publisher may not be.
A Book on Hold (Inside Higher Ed, 11/09/07)
Many university presses in the United States distribute books for publishers from other countries — and vice versa. The University of Michigan has recently discovered that such an arrangement can land a university in the middle of a controversy over a book neither written by one of its professors nor published by its press…. The University of Michigan Press last month halted distribution of Overcoming Zionism, which argues that the creation of Israel was a mistake and urges adoption of the “one state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which Israelis and Palestinians would form a new country, without a Jewish character. The book was written by Joel Kovel,…
The Propaganda Machine (Jonathan Cook website, 20/08/07)
“The goal of hasbara is to disseminate good news about Israel, largely independent of whether the news is true or not.” Writes Jonathan Cook.
Is Anti-Semitism in Europe on the Rise? (Spiegel Online, 10/08/07)
A sober show in Berlin offers an introductory treatment -- if not a thorough examination -- of rising anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East since September 11.
Israel does not act or speak for every Jew (Sydney Morning Herald, 04/08/06)
“I WRITE as a Jew and as a synagogue member. I write as one whose academic work continues to move through questions of Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust. Yet, I write with a growing sense of shame. The source of the feeling is simple: Israel claims that it continues to act in my name.”
The Apostate: A Zionist Politician Loses Faith in the Future (The New Yorker, 30/07/07)
The State of Zionism (The Nation, 18/06/07)
When an anti-Semite is not an anti-Semite (Guardian Comment is Free, 05/04/07)
View from America: 'In every generation, they rise up' (Jerusalem Post, 01/04/07)
”As the virus of anti-Zionism - a belief that is more often than not merely a thinly veiled New Age intellectual version of classical anti-Semitism - spreads from Europe to America's college campuses, the question of how to answer the challenge has left many Jews confused. A consistent pattern of Israeli peace offers and concessions answered by Palestinian rejection and terrorism ought to have ended serious discussion about American pressure on the Jewish state.”
Loewenstein condemned in Federal Parliament (28/03/07)
From Antony Loewenstein ’s Blog.
Jews against Zion (Jerusalem Post, 20/03/07)
”Throughout the Diaspora there are alienated Jews on the fringe whose primary involvement in Jewish life is centered on undermining the Jewish state…Now they are seeking to establish themselves as a respectable alternative Jewish voice. This is the price we are paying for having long buried our heads in the sand, failing to isolate from the mainstream Jews who dedicate themselves to delegitimizing and demonizing Israel.”
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Part 3: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (ABC Radio National Religion Report, 21/03/07)
Which Israeli Prime Minister in his youth was a member of an organisation that offered to collaborate with the Nazis at the height of World War II, because of their shared racial ideology of blood and soil? This question is answered by American civil rights activist and Anti-Zionist Lenni Brenner, the author of "Zionism in the age of the dictators".
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Part 2 (ABC Radio National Religion Report, 21/02/07)
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Part 1 (ABC Radio National Religion Report, 14/02/07)
Gap among Jews widens on question of Zionism (Baltimore Sun, 08/03/07)
”A profound division has developed between Zionist advocates of Israel and Jews, secular and religious, who reject or question Zionism and actions taken by the state of Israel.”