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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
by
Joel Kovel
-- A call to transform Israel into a secular democracy by a leading writer --'This book is absolutely fundamental for those who reject the unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel -- a confusion which is the basis for
Paperback, 311 pages
Published
February 15th 2007
by Pluto Press
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Kovel's book is the best survey of Zionism, its roots, its outcomes and why it is one of the most destructive ideologies today for Jews, Palestinians and the rest of the world. The primary conclusion that he draws is that the primary road to peace is the dismantling of Zionist ideology as a whole and putting in its place a construct based on Universal human rights and respect for the human dignity of all individuals.
What is unique about his analysis is that he looks at Zionism from a...more
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Kovel, who was formerly a psychiatrist and is now a professor of sociology, brings unique insight into the Zionist psyche and its role in contemporary Israel. According to Kovel, Zionism is a reactionary ideology that rejects universalism and attempts to legitimate Israel's exceptionalism by invoking primitive tribalism. Kovel demonstrates how the Zionist movement has exploited the horrors of the Shoah (Holocaust) to serve its own ends and how its adherents have identified themselves with the Na...more
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Joel Kovel's new book on the one state solution for Palestine is politically the best of the three which are reviewed here. Unlike Abunimah and Tilley, whose primary argument for one state is that it is the only solution left given the settlement grid and Israeli politics, Kovel proceeds from the starting point that Zionism as a political ideology is a retreat from radical modernist values, inimical to Jewish struggles against oppression, and horrific for the Palestinians. Kovel supports a one...more
The title says it all. Zionism, like all forms of ethnonationalism, needs to be overcome if humans are ever to effect comprehensive justice.
Interesting point of view, but polemical in tone and once the point's been made, there's no need to go on for 200 pages.
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Joel Kovel is Distinguished Professor of Social Studies at Bard College. He has written ten books, including the first edition of The Enemy of Nature which appeared in 2002, and Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited the journal of radical ecology, Capitalism Nature Socialism, since 2003 and has been active in Green politics, running for the US Senate in 1998, and seeking the party's presidentia...more
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