do you have any book recommendations on zionizm or israel/palestine conflict
I had a screenshot of my reading list going around for awhile but I’ve updated it since. Here’s what I have so far:
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe
- The Jewish State. Theodore Herzl
- The Iron Wall. Ze’ev Jabotinsky
- Lethal Theory. Eyal Weizman
- The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Gabriel Piterberg
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha
- Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel. Gardner Thompson
- Land, Labor and the Origin of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Greshon Shafir
- Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Zachary Lockman
- The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. Ghassan Kanafani
- Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Rosemary Sayigh
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi
- Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein
- Zionism in the Age of Dictators. Lenni Brenner
- The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. Edwin Black
- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II. Yosef Grodzinky
- What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine. Yael Chaver
- Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. Dan Tamir
- The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its Ideological Legacy. Eran Kaplan
- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir. Lenni Brenner
- The Making of Israeli Militarism; War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism. Uri Ben-Eliezer
- Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - And Why They Make Peace. Patrick Tyler
- The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel’s Quest for Security Through Dominance. Baylis Thomas
- Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism. Stephan Spector
- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. Eyal Weizman
- Israel: A Settler Colonial State. Maxime Rodinson
- Israel and Settler Society. Lorenzo Veracini
- Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. M. Shahid Alam
- Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. Nur Masalha
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Avi Shlaim
- War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Jeff Halper
- Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. Jonathan Cook
- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Across the World. Antony Loewenstein
- Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation by Riad Nassar
- We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands. Rachel Shabi
- On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements. Ella Shohat
- The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Bryan Roby
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Makings of a Movement. Angela Davis
- Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine. Ran Greenstein
- Rebels Against Zion: Studies on Jewish Left Anti-Zionism. Jack Ross
- Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine
- After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor
- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Jeff Halper
- Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims (1979). Edward Said
- Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims (1988). Social Text. Ella Shohat
- Zionism’s Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews (1996). Journal of Palestine Studies. Joseph Massad
- The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel (2003). American Sociological Review. Aziza Khazzoom
- Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy in Germany, 1933-39 (1978). The Journal of Modern History. Francis Nicosia
- Ethnoreligious Fundamentalism and Theoethnocratic Politics in Israel (2014). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nissim Leon
- The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition to the First Zionist Congress in 1897 (2009). Journal of Palestine Studies. Walid Khalidi
- Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel (2012). Settler Colonial Studies. David Lloyd
- The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939 (1989). American Ethnologist. Scott Atran
- Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins (1977). Journal of Palestine Studies. Abdul-Wahab Kayyali
- The Political Economy of Israel’s Demand for Palestinian Labor (1998). Third World Quarterly. Ali Kadri, Malcolm McMillen
- The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial About It? (2008). Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Leila Farsakh
- Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party (2007). Journal of Palestine Studies. Johan Franzen
- The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 (2017). Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948
- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Colonialism (2012). Joseph Massad. Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism/
- Anti-blackness and the Core Logic of Zionism (2017). Devyn Springer. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/blackness-logic-zionism/
- Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It (2018). Medhi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
- Zionist Role in 1950s Attacks on Iraqi Jews ‘Confirmed’ by Operative and Police Report (2023). Rayhan Uddin. Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews-attacks-zionist-role-confirmed-operative-police-report
- How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist (2018). Anshel Pfeffer. Ha’aretz [Zionist publication] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2018-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-netanyahu-became-a-holocaust-revisionist/0000017f-ded1-d3ff-a7ff-fff1b72a0000
- Scholars Call Bullshit on Netanyahu’s Speech Blaming Palestinians for the Holocaust (2015). Avi Asher-Schapiro. Vice News. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb83gm/scholars-call-bullshit-on-netanyahus-speech-blaming-palestinian-for-the-holocaust
- Trump Accuses ‘Liberal Jews’ of Voting to ‘Destroy America and Israel’ in Rosh Hashanah Message (2023). Summer Concepcion. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-goes-liberal-jews-israel-rosh-hashanah-message-rcna105540
- Majorie Taylor Greene Calls Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Protest an ‘Insurrection’ (2023). Heather Hunter. MSN News. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-israel-gaza-ceasefire-protest-an-insurrection/ar-AA1itAHG
- Government Said to Use Canary Mission Blacklist to Bar Visitors (2018). The Times of Israel [Zionist publication]. https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-said-to-use-canary-mission-blacklist-to-bar-visitors/
- Jewish Establishment Needs to Take on ‘Islamo-leftist’ Jews Who Are Undermining Israel’s Security - Zionist Thinktank (2022). Phillip Weiss. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/jewish-establishment-needs-to-take-on-islamo-leftist-jews-who-are-undermining-israels-security-zionist-thinktank/
- Israel Lobby Group ADL Rehabilitates Hitler’s Accomplices in Ukraine (2022). Ali Abunimah. The Electronic Intifida. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021
- San Francisco Federation Funds Far Right U.S. Groups, Not Just Canary Mission (2018). Allison Kepler Sommer. The Forward. https://forward.com/israel/411787/san-francisco-federation-funds-far-right-us-groups-not-just-canary-mission/
- Israel is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine (2018). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876
- Israel is Still Arming Ukraine’s Nazis (2022). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-still-arming-ukrainian-nazis
- Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in the Age of Trump (2019). Eliyahu Stern. Tablet Magazine [Zionist publication] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anti-semitism-orthodoxy-trump
- The New Heimish Populism (2020). Joshua Leifer. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/the-new-heimish-populism
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Voting is a tool.
By which I mean, voting is just a tool; it isn't sacred or magical.
And by which I also mean, voting is one tool that is good for one kind of purpose. If it isn't suitable for the goal you're trying to achieve, you need different tools.
Every time someone makes a post on here rightly criticizing Joe Biden's support for genocide, there's at least one person in the notes saying "but remember, you still have to vote for him!" or, "did you know Trump wants to deport Muslims?" or, "then who do you want me to vote for?"
But that's like going into a plant nursery and demanding they sell you the correct drill bit for planting a tree. They will never sell you the drill bit you want, because the drill bit you want--the drill bit suitable for planting trees--doesn't exist, and also plant nurseries don't sell drill bits.
Standing in the plant nursery asking about drill bits will probably initially get you people explaining to you where to find a shovel, and a watering can, and some mulch, because those are tools that will help you plant the tree. If you ignore the attempts to educate you, and start yelling about how they must just want you to throw away your drill, and also they probably hate trees and hate you and want you, personally, to suffer in a world without shade, you'll start getting different answers, like "please stop shouting" and "I'm going to have to ask you to leave now."
Because you're demanding that they tell you how to use the wrong tool for the job. They can never give you the answer you want; the answer you want doesn't exist.
I can't tell you who to vote for to prevent the rise of fascism in the United States, both because you can't prevent something that's already happened, and because you can't vote your way out of fascism.
You need different tools; you need to ask different questions and be willing to sit with the answers, even if they aren't the answers you want.
Boycotts are a tool. Protests are a tool. Shutting down highways, physically blocking weapons shipments, picketing arms companies, those are tools. So is going to your library and checking out books about Palestine, and about decolonization generally.
Instead of asking which war criminal you should vote for, perhaps ask how you can organize members of your community to support and look after each other and keep each other safe. Perhaps ask how you can support Land Back and prison abolition. Ask how you can organize a union in your workplace.
The tool you're most comfortable using isn't going to work for this job. Learn how to use another.
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