Enlightening disillusionments - Akiva Orr

Akiva Orr.

Memoires of Israeli libertarian socialist and anti-Zionist activist, Akiva Orr, covering the period from the 1950s, including his radicalisation during a strike on the Israeli docks, until 2005.

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The unJewish state: the politics of Jewish identity in Israel - Akiva Orr

Akiva Orr looks at the failure of Israel's founders to provide a source for modern Jewish identity…

The other Israel: the radical case against zionism

Classic critique from 1972 by pioneering Israeli anti-zionist socialist group Matzpen against the Israeli state and the origins of the Arab…

Israel: politics, myths and identity crises - Akiva Orr

Akiva Orr examines the politics and ideology of Zionism and demystifies the notion of the 'Jewish…

Israeli Commander Moshe Dayan in the Suez Canal region during the 1956 war.

Peace, peace when there is no peace - Akiva Orr and Moshe Machover

Book written by Akiva Orr and Moshe Machover between 1957-1961, before either had broken with the…

Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom - Fredy Perlman

Drawing on his personal experiences and family history, Perlman dissects the disturbing irony in the use of the Holocaust as justification for…