Parting Ways Quotes

“If Zionism continues to control the meaning of Jewishness, then there can be no Jewish critique of Israel and no acknowledgment of those of Jewish descent or formation who call into question the right of the State of Israel to speak for Jewish values or, indeed, the Jewish people.”
― Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

“What started as a book seeking to debunk the claim that any and all criticism of the State of Israel is effectively anti-Semitic has become a meditation on the necessity of tarrying with the impossible. I will try to make this clear in what follows, but let me state the risk of this endeavor clearly from the start.”
― Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

“PERHAPS IN SOME FORMAL SENSE every book begins by considering its own impossibility, but this book’s completion has depended on a way of working with that impossibility without a clear resolution. Even so, something of that impossibility has to be sustained within the writing, even if it continually threatens to bring the project to a halt.”
― Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism