Description:
PERSONAL NARRATIVES BY THIRTY-NINE JEWISH ACTIVISTS AND SCHOLARS
Brief description: Carolyn L. Karcher is professor emerita of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at Temple University and the author of many books and articles about the struggle for racial and gender equality in the US.
Review Quotes: Carolyn Karcher has constructed an anthology that addresses the departure from Zionist ideology of a diversity of Jews from both the U.S. and Israel. Each section gives voice to a particular segment of Jews critically considering the impact of Zionism on their lives and choices, and most importantly, the life-threatening consequences of this ideology for Palestinian residents of Israel, and for those who live in the occupied West Bank and Gaza ' . This book is valuable in that it describes and gives voice to the challenge to distance one's self from an ideology that is presented as a liberation movement. These voices must contend with being called anti-Semitic and self-hating Jews by strangers as well as by family members. Jewish nationalism, as in other forms of nationalism spreading across the globe, is by its very nature discriminatory, creating Us and Them polarities that favor the dominant culture over all others. Israel has been able to do this because of American tax-payer money to the tunes of billions of dollars over the decades.--Eleanor Roffman, Mondoweiss