r/JewsOfConscience • u/Jche98 Jewish Anti-Zionist • 3d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only What book to give a Zionist?

My cousin is a Zionist. He made Aliyah and has served in the IDF in Gaza and Lebanon. He was in the brigade that responded to Oct 7 and lost one of his best friends to a Hamas bullet that day. I've spoken with him and he's open to learning more. I'm looking for a book to give him which is a very GENTLE introduction to an alternative viewpoint from Zionism, something that won't scare him. Can anyone recommend something.

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u/Benyano Jewish 3d ago

I really got a lot out of reading 2 books in succession. A Land Of Two Peoples, a collection of Martin Buber’s writings in Palestine and Zionism from 1919- early 1960s. And In Days to Come a book that is simultaneous an autobiography, political history and manifesto by Avrum Burg covering the 1950s through when it was written in 2018.