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  1. Anti-Semite and Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1965
  2. Beyond Judgment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  6. The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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."
  7. Eichmann in Jerusalem
    A report on the banality of evil

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1965
    Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
  8. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
  9. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. The Invention of the Jewish People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    In this new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times — when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.
  13. 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.
  14. Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
    "Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
  15. 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.
  16. Jewish History, Jewish Religion
    The Weight of Three Thousand Years

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  17. The Jewish Problem After Hitler
    Palestine and the Fourth International

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1947
  18. The Jewish Question
    A Marxist Interpretation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1970
  19. Jewish Question Since World War II
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1947
  20. 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.
  21. Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
    See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
  22. Jews for a Just Peace
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    an organization of Vancouver Jews whose purpose is to build support in our community for a fair and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recognizing the inequality in the power of the two parties, we believe such a solution will be found through co-operation and dialogue, not through violence and intransigence. We are allied with similar Jewish, Palestinian and other groups, both within and outside Israel and the occupied territories, working in solidarity toward peace. We believe in the right of Israel to live in peace and security. We also believe in the right of the Palestinian people to live in peace and security, and to establish a viable independent state in the whole of the West Bank and Gaza Strip should they so wish. We believe that Israel, and any future Palestinian state, should be democracies with equal rights for all their citizens regardless of ethnicity. This does not preclude the possible eventual establishment of one democratic bi-national state, with equal rights for both peoples.
  23. Jews, Marxism and the Worker’s Movement
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subject index of texts from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Leon and Luxemburg; texts from the Jewish Socialist & Labor Movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jews.
  24. 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.
  25. The Last Jews in Berlin
    Powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1983
  26. The Life of Death: An Exchange 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
  27. 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.
  28. Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
  29. The Marxists and the Jewish Question
    The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
  30. Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1958
    The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.
  31. New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
  32. Not In My Name
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A predominantly Jewish organization committed to a peaceful and just resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, one that will provide safety, security and freedom for Jews, Palestinians, and all others living in this region. Believes that such a peace can only be achieved when Israel withdraws from its settlements in the Palestinian territories and addresses the legitimate national and human rights of the Palestinian people.
  33. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
  34. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  35. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
  36. Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
  37. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  38. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
  39. A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
  40. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
  41. 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.
  42. Ta'ayush
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    A grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership.
  43. A Threat from Within
    A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
  44. 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.
  45. Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
  46. Underground to Palestine 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1978
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. Why There Are No ‘Israelis’ in the Jewish State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis”, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.

Experts on Jews in the Sources Directory

  1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum



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