Critical Perspectives on Israel and Zionism
A Discussion and Reading Group sponsored by Independent Jewish Voices Toronto and The United Jewish Peoples Order. Monday evenings 7-9 PM
Facilitators: Jason Kunin, Ph.D. <>
Sheryl Nestel Ph.D.
Week One January 14, 2013
Zionism and its Interlocutors
Said,Edward (1979) Zionism from the standpoint of its victims. Social Text, no. 1 (Winter, 1979), pp. 7-58
Shalim, Avi T (2007). “The debate about 48” in Benny Morris, (Ed.) Making Israel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
Week Two January 21, 2013
Zionism and the Holocaust
Zertal, Idit (2000) From the People's Hall to the Wailing Wall: A Study in Memory, Fear, and War: Representations, No. 69, Special Issue: Grounds for Remembering (Winter, 2000), pp.96-126
Arendt, Hannah (1951) “Preface to Part One: Antisemitism” in The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt.
Film clips : Defamation
Week Three January 28, 2013
Nakba/1948
Film: Sands of Sorrow
Pappe, Ilan (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, pp. 10-23.
Karmi, Ghada. (2002/2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. London: Verso pp.87-123
Darwish, Mahmoud (2003). “The Everlasting Indian Fig” in Unfortunately, It Was Paradise. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Week Four February 4, 2013
1967 and the Origin of the Settlements/”Israeli Arabs”
Gordon,Neve (2008). The Infrastructure of Control in Israel’s Occupation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Shenhav, Yehouda (2012). “Was 1967 a Revolutionary Year?” in Beyond the Two State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 55-67
Nathan, Susan (2005). The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide. New York: Doubleday, pp. 121-161
Week Five February 8, 2013
Zionism and Jewish identity
Shohat, Ella (1988). Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims: Social Text, No. 19/20 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 1-35
Ellis, Marc (2003). “Jew vs. Jew: On the Jewish Civil War and the New Prophetic” in Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon (Eds.) Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, pp. 139-156.. New York: Grove Press.
Rabkin, Yakov (2006). A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, pp. 135-167. Black Point: Fernwood Publishers.
Week Six February 19, 2013
Apartheid and Beyond
Yehouda Shenhav (2012) The Return to the Rights of the Jews in Beyond the Two State Solution, pp.146-168
Abunima, Ali (2007). One Country:A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse . Picador Books.