Jewish Anti-Zionism 101
All sessions will be recorded and available anytime to those who register for the course.
Session 1: Jewish anti-Zionism, 1800s-1948: Lecture and Q&A (August 19th, 12pm EST)
This session covers the history of Jewish anti-Zionism from its origins in the 1870s to 1948. We’ll survey four strains of anti-Zionism: humanitarian, assimilationist, socialist and religious among Jewish communities in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Poland, Russia, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the Balkans, Germany, France, the UK, the US, Argentina and elsewhere. We’ll explain why most Jews around the world rejected Zionism until the 1940s.
Session 2: Jewish anti-Zionism, 1948-2005: Lecture and Q&A (August 26, 12pm EST)
This session covers the transformation of world Jewry from non- and anti-Zionism to Zionism, and then from Zionism to Israelism, a belief that singles out Israel’s Jewish character as sacred above all other Jewish laws, principles and practices. We’ll also cover the minority of Jews who learned a universalist rather than chauvinist lesson from the Holocaust, and the re-birth of Jewish anti-Zionist movements in the 1970s-1980s.
Special session: Interview with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro In this interview, we will explore the relationship between the Jewish tradition and Zionism. (August 29, 12pm EST)
Session 3: Jewish anti-Zionism, 2005-present Lecture and Q&A (September 2, 12pm EST)
This session will cover the rise of anti-Zionism in the 21st century and the great divergence between US and Israeli Jews. While Israeli Jews doubled down on Zionism, US Jews abandoned it in larger and larger numbers. We’ll also survey the Cambrian explosion of Jewish anti-Zionist content creation, institutional growth and political actions. Today, Jewish anti-Zionism in the United States is growing at its fastest rate in history.
Session 4: Roundtable with Jewish Anti-Zionists + Q&A (September 9, 12pm EST)
Confirmed special guests include Peter Beinart, Yaakov Shapiro and more!
A portion of the course fees are donated to genocide survivors in Gaza and to our writers in Gaza. Thanks for supporting our work.
Jewish Anti-Zionism 101
All sessions will be recorded and available anytime to those who register for the course.
Session 1: Jewish anti-Zionism, 1800s-1948: Lecture and Q&A (August 19th, 12pm EST)
This session covers the history of Jewish anti-Zionism from its origins in the 1870s to 1948. We’ll survey four strains of anti-Zionism: humanitarian, assimilationist, socialist and religious among Jewish communities in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Poland, Russia, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the Balkans, Germany, France, the UK, the US, Argentina and elsewhere. We’ll explain why most Jews around the world rejected Zionism until the 1940s.
Session 2: Jewish anti-Zionism, 1948-2005: Lecture and Q&A (August 26, 12pm EST)
This session covers the transformation of world Jewry from non- and anti-Zionism to Zionism, and then from Zionism to Israelism, a belief that singles out Israel’s Jewish character as sacred above all other Jewish laws, principles and practices. We’ll also cover the minority of Jews who learned a universalist rather than chauvinist lesson from the Holocaust, and the re-birth of Jewish anti-Zionist movements in the 1970s-1980s.
Special session: Interview with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro In this interview, we will explore the relationship between the Jewish tradition and Zionism. (August 29, 12pm EST)
Session 3: Jewish anti-Zionism, 2005-present Lecture and Q&A (September 2, 12pm EST)
This session will cover the rise of anti-Zionism in the 21st century and the great divergence between US and Israeli Jews. While Israeli Jews doubled down on Zionism, US Jews abandoned it in larger and larger numbers. We’ll also survey the Cambrian explosion of Jewish anti-Zionist content creation, institutional growth and political actions. Today, Jewish anti-Zionism in the United States is growing at its fastest rate in history.
Session 4: Roundtable with Jewish Anti-Zionists + Q&A (September 9, 12pm EST)
Confirmed special guests include Peter Beinart, Yaakov Shapiro and more!
A portion of the course fees are donated to genocide survivors in Gaza and to our writers in Gaza. Thanks for supporting our work.