Zionist Pressure Fails to Stop Overcoming Zionism Book

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Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, said, "What we don't have is any kind of real debate on this subject in our country at this time ... basically these Zionist repression groups have had pretty much a free hand ... that's why I wrote the book. I mean, I wanted to -- I disregarded all the taboos, that you're not supposed to talk about Israel in any depth in this country."

[The distributor dropped his book after receiving threatening emails from a Zionist pressure group.] "They panicked this summer when they dropped my book. I mean, they were pressured by this Zionist watchdog team." [But the Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
was able to convince them to continue distributing it.] "We have a committee forming, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, codz.org. And we're planning a conference and all. But the committee leapt into action, and we were amazed at just how eloquent and, you know, basically fed up a lot of people were with being intimidated by these kinds of tactics. They just want to suppress an open discussion of this subject. ... I grew up in a very conventional Jewish home, except for the fact that there was a lot of division on this subject, so I think from an early age I learned to take a certain distance from it and to think critically about it."

"The Jewish people have been, you know, very largely deprived of a real opportunity to look at what's going on in the state of Israel."

"The notion of Zionism, as that there is this kind of destiny of the Jewish people to have their own state, is just the wrong idea. And it's an idea that requires signing onto imperialism. It means signing onto ethnic cleansing. It means -- despite everything that has been said about it, it means basically becoming a racist situation, where you're oppressing an indigenous population and depriving them of their right to existence ... I join hands with those people who feel that the time has come to basically think of Israel in the same category as South Africa, as a state that just has gone wrong and needs replacement ... the comparison was interesting, because Tutu and other leaders of the freedom struggle in South Africa who visited Palestine have always been asked, well, how does it compare? And he says, well, it's not the same thing, Israel is actually worse. He actually said, Israel is a worse place than Apartheid South Africa was."


"This is much worse than apartheid." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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University of Michigan Press to Continue Publishing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism" After Initially Dropping Book Due to Rightwing Criticism


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johnsmdm (November 19, 2008 at 11:41 pm)
get the amy types..
anglo86 (November 14, 2008 at 7:50 am)
Zionism, originally a political movement4a jewish hoeland, fair enough. Modern Zionism = world domination via 1 world g'ment. Don't forget ppl these Zionists are responsible 4many wars fro WW1 to present day, & THEREFORE 10'S OF MILLIONS OF DEATHS. What the Jews experienced under Hitler's reign is not as bad as what the Russians experienced under the Jewish Bolsheviks
tuberoller7 (November 15, 2008 at 12:08 pm)
KILLING THE NATIVE PALESTINIAN POPULATION FOR 60 YEARS IN A ROW AT AN AVERAGE RATIO OF "8 to 1" WHILSTS CLAIMING "ISRAEL" IS THE VICTIM OF TERRORISM AND ANTI~SEMITISM IS SIMPLY "LAUGHABLE" BY ANY RATIONAL, LOGIC, RELIGION OR CREED!. NO EXCUSES ARE CREDIBLE FOR THESE LEVELS OF AMERICAN SPONSORED ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM!. NOT EVEN THE JEWISH RELIGION ALLOWS KILLING BEYOND EYE FOR AN EYE.
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NOTE: Source of 8 to 1 ratio is the BT Selem ISRAELI Human Rights Group.
Goohuman (November 15, 2008 at 6:52 pm)
Sending children and mentally handicapped people to commit suicide to kill Israelis long after the war was over and long after they GAVE Pallies land to live on regardless of Palestines lust for the blood of Jews is FAR WORSE!
There aren't enough capital letters in the world to get that point across.
Give it up already! YOU LOST!
Goohuman (November 15, 2008 at 6:57 pm)
Bullcrap. Jews didn't make the German's take Belgium and they sure as hell didn't tell Hitler to try to conquer all of Europe while they were slaughtered by the millions.
Sell your textbook cuz it ain't working, and use the money to buy a clue.
Goohuman (November 12, 2008 at 8:52 pm)
I just want to point out that every time I get into it with some Pally about this war, they point out how many UN resolutions the Israelis have violated.
The U.N. is corrupt and useless now. It is so rediculously biased against Israel that there can't possibly come any useful resolutions. It is sad to see such a corruption of what looked like a good idea for such a long time. The problem IMHO, is that the U.N. is it's own police. No one can control it but itself.
Goohuman (November 12, 2008 at 8:48 pm)
Yea... I have to disagree with that. If the "zionists" were running the media, then we wouldn't have so many reports of IDF crimes and how great the Palestinians are on TV. It would all be how great Israel is and how terrible Palestine is, and that is not the case.
zachskrit (November 12, 2008 at 2:43 pm)
I am not trying to be a fair or balanced liberal. I don't care what idiots like you think. I am telling, warning you, that to me there's no difference between an anti-zionist and an anti-semite, because without zionism Jews would have been wiped out long ago. I don't care what any other race does. I told you what we will do.
tuor1984 (November 12, 2008 at 3:23 pm)
You do what you got to do, and the rest of us will do what we got to do, to stop the plague upon the world that is Zionism.
anglo86 (November 14, 2008 at 7:46 am)
You told me what you will do, yeah I can remeber kill anyone who speaks out against you lol And to be anti-Zionist is not anti-semetic that's just an old arguement Zionists use to ridicule a person who speaks the truth about them. I know zionism was originally a movement 4a jewish homeland, but it's been proven some Zionists want world domination, theyre responsible 4 millions of deaths & are the cancer of this planet, it wud b better place wivout Zionists and many who r now waking up wud agree.