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  1. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
  2. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
  3. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  4. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Rodinson argues that Zionism fits into the general pattern of Western colonialism, and that Arab opposition to Israel is the opposition of a colonized people towards their colonizers.
  5. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  6. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  7. 1950–51 Baghdad bombings
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1950
    1950–1951 Baghdad bombings refers to the bombing of Jewish targets in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. It is widely believed that the bombings were carried out by Zionist agents seeking to cause terror in among Iraqi Jews in order to impel them to leave Iraq for Israel.
  8. Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
  9. The Socialist Register 1970
    Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
  10. A Threat from Within
    A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Rabkin brings to light continuing Jewish opposition to Zionism, a religious tradition which presents a fundamental challenge to the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.
  11. A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
  12. Victims No Longer?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
  13. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.


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