Download Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace by Avigail Abarbanel PDF

By Avigail Abarbanel

There's an expectation in Jewish groups worldwide that every one Jews embody Zionism and provide unquestioning aid for Israel, wrong or right . Jewish identification and Zionism are in most cases and intentionally blurred. Jews who criticise Israel or query Zionism are usually excluded, vilified and threatened. in the event that they convey sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian humans, they hazard being branded as traitors and accused of aiding the enemies of Israel . past Tribal Loyalties is a distinct number of twenty-five own tales of Jewish peace activists from Australia, Canada, Israel, the uk and the USA. there's an age distinction of greater than fifty years among the oldest and the youngest contributor. The tales concentrate on the advanced and extremely own trip that Jewish activists struggle through to unfastened themselves from the carry of Zionist ideology and its requirement to help all Israeli rules. Like many Jews, lots of the participants have been as soon as unquestioning supporters of Israel and Zionism. anything occurred within the lifetime of each one of those impressive people who brought on them to question and re-examine their figuring out of the clash and their dating with Israel and the Palestinian humans. in lots of circumstances this trip concerned a reassessment of private values, trust platforms and id. past Tribal Loyalties seeks to find what enables Jewish peace activists to persist with via with this transformative trip and their activist paintings, regardless of fanatical and occasionally violent competition. this can be an inspiring booklet for somebody who's attracted to the adventure of being a peace activist. It bargains a clean and strange perspective at the Israeli-Palestinian clash, and is a distinct contribution in a box the place political research is usual, yet the place the non-public attitude is frequently missing.