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/rusaluchkaa Ashkenazi 3d ago

Saïd is pretty good at acknowledging Jewish history and connection to the land as well as historical persecution, and not positing that every Jew in Palestine should "go back to where they came from" or whatever, while also being a very solidly antizionist and decolonial thinker. He's also just a brilliant writer. So I'd recommend "The Question of Palestine."

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u/Artistic-Vanilla-899 Non-Jewish Ally 3d ago

This also....Zionism from the standpoint of its victims.

Said is great for presenting a universal and humanist perspective.

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