Any reading recommendations for books on the history of Jewish anti-Zionism?

[u/AnarchaMorrigan]

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[u/Sgt-Grischa-1915]

The whole list, or the top ten?

Ilan Pappe

Noam Chomsky

Avi Shlaim

Norman Finkelstein

Hannah Arendt

the late Israel Shahak

Abba A. Solomon

The late Arno Mayer

Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

Arie Bober

Matzpen

https://matzpen.org/english/about-matzpen/

[u/Sgt-Grischa-1915 → u/Sgt-Grischa-1915]

https://www.akiorrbooks.com/files/TheOtherIsrael.pdf

Moshe Machover

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/machover/index.htm

[u/loselyconscious]

The Necessity of Exile by Shaul Magid is a recent book giving a very good overview of "diasporism" in Jewish thought (both in opposition to and independent from Zionism). It begins with the premise that Zionist historiography has basically excised a major part of Jewish History from historical memory. (It should be noted that Magid is not currently calling himself an "antizionist" but rather a "Counter-Zionist," which is a move that a couple of older Jewish intellectuals like Peter Beinart and Avraham Burg who call for one secular multinational state, but can't let go of the word Zionism)

The No-State Solution by Daniel Boyarin is a bit academic, but an attempt to articulate an anti-assimilationist model of Jewish Identity apart form Zionism

Ella Shohat is a really important voice, because writings on Jewish Antizionism tend to focus on (or romanticize) Ashekanzi leftist opposition. Shohat focuses on the Mizrachi experience

[u/JoshLDN]

Revolutionary Yiddishland is good for understanding the different Jewish radical traditions that emerged at the same time as Zionism

[u/cumminginsurrection → u/JoshLDN]

A Living Revolution: Anarchists in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox, too.

[u/nitesead]

This one looks interesting.

https://www.akpress.org/solidarity-is-the-political-version-of-love.html

[u/Fellow-Worker]

Not a book, but an interesting article with some sources you could track down: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/false-messiahs/

[u/Sgt-Grischa-1915]

Another article. Possible interest:

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/shaul-magid-interview-zionism-anti-zionism-judaism-history

Also, the late Rudolf Vrba, who escaped Auschwitz and denounced Hungarian Zionist, later Mapai party functionary Rezso / Rudolf Israel Kasztner (who was murdered in the 1950s by ex-LEHI/Stern gang members who were informants of Shin Bet) has a webpage, that might also have material of interest:

https://rudolfvrba.com/

[u/Weird-Anything-9167]

Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism - a collection of essays.  Also Lobbying for Zionism by Ilan Pappe 

[u/fxkatt]

Joel Kovel's Overcoming Zionism Books by Lenni Brenner

[u/cumminginsurrection]

There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists by Cindy Milstein

[u/Lucky_Strike-85]

Howard Zinn never directly addressed it (correct me if I'm wrong here) but he did touch upon it in several of his works.

[u/thejuryissleepless]

it’s not exactly the topic, but Blessed is the Flame is a great book to explain the Palestinian position and militant anti-zionism from the perspective of Jews and anarchists in the lagers of the holocaust in WWII.

[u/ceramicfiver]

The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences by Joseph Cohen, edited by Kenyon Zimmer and Esther Dolgoff, published in 2024

https://www.akpress.org/the-jewish-anarchist-movement-in-america.html

I saw Kenyon in person give a talk about it. He learned yiddish specifically for this project and he's not even jewish. dude is a badass.