Episode 051 - Embracing Jewish Anti-Zionism with Rabbi Brant Rosen

Books/Videos

• Shalom Rav blog by Rabbi Rosen

• Tzedek Chicago (website)

• The Empty Wagon: Zionism's journey from identity crisis to identity theft, by Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro

• Jewish Voice for Peace on Zionism

• International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (website)

• Ep. 10 - Decolonizing Native America & Palestine with Dr. Steve Salaita (Palestine Pod)

• The Transfer Agreement: The Untold Story of the Secret Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, by Edwin Black (Foreign Affairs)

Articles

• Chicago Synagogue Officially Designates Itself ‘anti-Zionist’ (Haaretz)

• Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic (The Guardian)

• The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left (In These Times)

• When secular Israelis claim ‘God gave this land to us’ (People's World)

• If the Messiah Isn't Here Yet, Does Israel Belong to the Jews? (Haaretz)

• Neturei Karta (website)

• Why Millennials flock to Chicago’s non-Zionist synagogue (Times of Israel)

• Herzl’s Secret Conversion Scheme (Israel Today)

• Inside Israel’s million dollar troll army (Electronic Intifada)

• Opinion | The Balfour Declaration's Deep anti-Semitism and Racism - and Why It Still Matters (Haaretz)

• It's Time To Admit That Arthur Balfour Was A White Supremacist — And An Anti-Semite Too (Palestine Studies)

• Zionism, anti-Semitism and colonialism (Al Jazeera)

• Christian Zionism and the Balfour Declaration (Jerusalem Post)

• Anti-Semitism and Zionism Have Formed a Brutal Alliance (Truth Out)

• Zionism’s uneasy relationship with antisemitism (Mondoweiss)

• Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs). After the barbaric Kishinev pogrom of April 1901, when hundreds of Jews were killed and wounded, Herzl came to Russia to barter with V.K. Plehve, the Russian interior minister who had incited the pogrom. Herzl told Jewish cultural leader Chaim Zhitlovsky: “I have an absolutely binding promise from Plehve that he will procure a charter for Palestine for us in 15 years at the outside. There is one condition, however, the revolutionaries must stop their struggle against the Russian government.” Zhitlovsky, incensed at Herzl for dealing with a killer of Jews, and aware that Herzl had been outsmarted, persuaded him to abandon the idea. Still, the Zionist leaders in Russia agreed with the government that the real responsibility for the pogroms rested with the Jewish Bund, a socialist group urging democratic reforms in the Czarist regime. Zionists wanted Jews to remain aloof from Russian politics until it was time to leave for Palestine.

• When a Nazi toured the Holy Land to find a solution for the ‘Jewish problem’ (Times of Israel)

• The Secret Operation To Bring Nazi Scientists To America (NPR)

• Israel Is Arming Ukraine’s Blatantly Neo-Nazi Militia, the Azov Battalion (International Middle East Media Center)

• Israel's selective humanitarian façade (Middle East Monitor)

• Why Israel Refused to Help Ukraine Defend Itself From Russian Missiles (The Intercept)

• Operation Cast Lead (Institute for Middle East Understanding)