1. Albert Einstein Quotations Opposing a Jewish State
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   
2. America’s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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.
3. Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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.
4. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1983
   The long exile is over; the persecuted refugee at long last returns to Zion, but so badly scarred he’s unrecognizable, he has completely lost his self; he returns as anti-Semite, as Pogromist, as mass murderer; the ages of exile and suffering are still included in his makeup, but only as self-justifications.
5. The arrogance of the long distance Zionist
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1998
   Immigration as part of a concerted plan that will take over the country, expropriating, expelling and exploiting the native masses, is less immigration and more a long drawn out and aggressive invasion.
6. Blaming The Victims
   Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
   
7. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
   
8. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
   Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2008
   Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
   
9. The Case Against Israel
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
10. Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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).
    
11. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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 mantra’s and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
    
12. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
13. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
14. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
15. The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Argues that "Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew."
16. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
17. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
18. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
19. The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
20. Ha'am, Ahad
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1856-1927). Was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers.
21. 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.
    
22. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
    
23. The Hollow Land
    Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
24. How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
25. If I Am Not For Myselt 
    Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
26. Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
27. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
28. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
29. Israel’s 'left’ apologists 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
30. An Issue Of Justice 
    Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
31. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
32. Jewish Voice for Peace
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. Supports the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
33. Judeophobia: The scourge of antisemitism
    New Internationalist October 2004 - #372
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the history of antisemitism and the fight against it.
34. The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    As a mass movement, Socialist Zionism is finished. One might say that it accomplished its actual goal -- the building of the Jewish state. Unless one identifies "socialism" with statism, socialism was never a goal of Ben-Gurion and his co-thinkers.
35. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
36. Married to Another Man
    Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
37. The Myths of Liberal Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Yitzhak Laor, one of Israel's most independent writers and prominent dissidents, demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.
38. New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    
39. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
40. Occupation 101
    Voices of the Silenced Majority
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    
41. The Olga Document 
    For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
42. An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
43. Overcoming Zionism 
    Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
44. Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
45. Plowshares into Swords
    From Zionism to Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
46. The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
47. 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?
48. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
49. Quest for Justice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
50. The Returns of Zionism
    Myths, Politics and Scholarship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
51. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
52. Setting the Record Straight
    Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
53. Should There Be A Jewish State?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    The very concept of ethnically pure states is divisive and destined to stoke conflict. The so-called "two state solution" in the Middle East — establishing a Palestinian state to counter the Jewish state — is a conceptual and political trap that prevents Arab and Jewish working people from uniting around their common interests and values. The situation in the Middle East cannot be solved within this framework; it leads nowhere except to more destruction and hate and more elite control.
54. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
55. 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.
56. The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Instead of calling people who criticize Israel and US policy towards it anti-Semitic, a morally committed response would be to face up to the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine and do our best to remedy it.
57. A Threat from Within
    A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
    
58. A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
59. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
60. A truly fragile identify
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
61. "Two State Solution" Equals Racism
    Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
62. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
63. Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    In order to move forward and overcome the arguments people like him will hurl against us, we will need to get outside the reformist box and adopt a frankly revolutionary outlook, one that clearly sees the class conflict that rages all around us, that speaks to people about it directly, that asks people to evaluate ideas and events in light of their own insights into the world based on their personal experience of the class war, and that aims not merely to act as a cheerleader for this or that "lesser evil" scheme of our capitalist rulers but to win the class war so that ordinary people can shape society by their positive values.
64. What is Anti-Semitism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
65. Why Israel Won't Survive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
66. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
67. 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
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
    
68. 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.
69. Zionism, Israel, & the Arabs
    Resource Type: Book
    
70. Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
71. Zionism vs. Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Mainstream and right-wing Zionism has always been tangled up in this catch 22: wanting to be normal, yet at the same time wanting to be seen as totally unique, singled out, attacked more unfairly than any other nation and, thus, quite abnormal. The more Israelis have tried to become normal by naming and defeating their enemies, the deeper they've entrenched themselves in their myth of being the uniquely persecuted people.

Experts on Zionism in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive