Jewish Not Zionist

With her intense lyrical style, Marilyn Garson vividly conveys the raw experience and pain of being cast out from her Jewish community because she could no longer support 'the ethno-nationalist project of Zionism - the establishment of a Jewish majoritarian sovereignty over the land of Palestine'. As an observant Jew who only recently had found the faith of her Jewish heritage, this exclusion was especially painful. However, she found community with Jews who share her opposition to the oppression committed by the State of Israel against the people of Palestine. She joins a growing world-wide movement of like- minded Jews in solidarity for the liberation of Palestine. Her fine book is a powerful document of her experiences which hopefully can inspire other Jews to make the break from the Zionist mind shackles which have distorted and degraded so much of modern Jewish culture and life. - Vivienne Porzsolt, Founding member and former Spokesperson for Jews against the Occupation'48 Australia Sharing how the ripples of her years spent in Gaza spread across the decades of her life to the current genocidal moment, Marilyn Garson offers one story of what an anti-Zionist Jewishness can entail. And in doing so, she offers a guiding set of possibilities for Jews connected to settler colonies - from here to Palestine - for how to root ourselves in anti-colonial Jewish communal practice. - Jordy Silverstein, Academic and researcher, historian and writer, member of the Loud Jew Collective, Naarm (Melbourne).