A land with a people : Palestinians and Jews confront Zionism : a collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art / edited by Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky, and Sarah Sills ; [foreword by Noura Erakat].
Radical Imagination and Palestine / Noura Erakat -- Why Tell These Stories / Esther Farmer -- Zionism's Twilight / Rosalind Petchesky -- Colonial Dreams, Racist Nightmares, Liberated Futures -- Nakba / Remi Kanazi -- The Necklace / Riham Barghouti -- The Blue Book / Lynne Lopez-Salzedo -- A Place Cleared of Memory / Gabrielle Spear -- From Thriving Farmers to Hopeless Refugees / Abdullah Aljammal -- Seventieth Anniversary of the Nakba : A Warm April Day in 1948 Jerusalem / Lama Khouri -- The Snap / Shirly Bahar -- In the Haze of Fifty-One Days / Dorgham Abusalim -- The Worst Ghosts / Hala Alyan -- Zionists Love Israel but They Don't Love Jews / Esther Farmer -- A State for All its Citizens / Asaf Calderon -- Evolving Through and Out of Zionism (But Still Looking Back) / Kenan Jaffe -- From Brooklyn to Palestine and Back / Abir Saleh -- I Am the 'Other' / Eman Rashid -- Unlearning Zionism / Talia Baurer -- Tatreez & Cowgirl Boots / Amira Hurriya -- We Are Palestinians, After All / Sara Abou Rashed -- From a Zionist's Son to a JVP Activist / David Bragin -- "Turkos" in the Diaspora / Nader -- An Israeli in New York Testifies about Zionism and BDS / Sagiv Galai -- On Becoming an Anti-Zionist Feminist / Rosalind Petchesky -- Advice before Departure at Ben Gurion / Susan Eisenberg -- Going "Home" / Nadia Kader -- Gaza Nights : January 2009 / Aurora Levins Morales -- Seeing Zionism at Last / Tzvia Their -- Jerusalem Shadow / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz -- Women in Black / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Diving into the Wreck / Stefanie Fox -- My Only Weapon Is My Pencil / Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh -- And We Have a Land / Mahmoud Darwish -- JVP's Approach to Zionism -- A Timeline of Zionism / Cara Levine and Gabrielle Spear -- An Abbreviated History of Resistance to Zionism / Jay Saper
Summary:
"A Land With A People began as a storytelling project of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City and subsequently transformed into a theater project performed throughout the New York City area. A Land With A People elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions. It brings us the narratives of secular, Muslim, Christian, and LGBTQ Palestinians who endure the particular brand of settler colonialism known as Zionism. It relays the transformational journeys of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Palestinian and LGBTQ Jews who have come to reject the received Zionist narrative. Unflinching in their confrontation of the power dynamics that underlie their transformation process, these writers find the courage to face what has happened to historic Palestine, and to their own families as a result. Stories touch hearts, open minds, and transform our understanding of the "other"-as well as comprehension of our own roles and responsibilities. A Land With a People emerges from this reckoning. Contextualized by a detailed historical introduction and timeline charting 150 years of Palestinian and Jewish resistance to Zionism, this collection will stir emotions, provoke fresh thinking, and point to a more hopeful, loving future-one in which Palestine/Israel is seen for what it is in its entirety, as well as for what it can be"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.