Tag: Marilyn Garson
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Jewish not Zionist: an invitation from JVL
Leah Levane, Co-Chair of JVL (Jewish Voice for Labour) kindly wrote the introduction to the UK edition of Marilyn Garson’s latest book, Jewish not Zionist. Her introduction summarizes how the situation we are now challenging in Israel / Palestine came about. It covers the Balfour Declaration, and the likely motivations behind it, and how the…
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The most extraordinary thing I learned from Marilyn Garson
There are 30 million Christian Zionists in the United States, and there are only 16 million Jews on the planet. Therefore the colonialist project known as Zionism is not primarily a Jewish force. What’s more, with the rise of post-colonialist, anti-racist attitudes in the younger generation, the overlap between Jews and Zionists is getting steadily…
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A wonderful opportunity
There are so many reasons to be interested in Marilyn Garson’s writing. She has worked in Afghanistan and Palestine, and has written a book about her experiences in Gaza during the 2014 bombardment. She describes the mission she gave herself as aiming to ‘rehumanize’ the people of Gaza. I love that focus. It brings strong…
Kay Green 