Akiva Orr has been writing on the issue of the relation between Zionism and the search for a secular Jewish identity for many years, including the book Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises, published in English by Pluto Press in 1994.
News from Within Podcast: Zionism as an Attempt to Solve the Jewish Identity Complex of Secular Jews
On Monday, the 26th of May, 2008, Akiva Orr spoke at the
offices of the Alternative Information Center in West Jerusalem. Akiva was born
in Berlin in 1931 and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934, growing
up in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Navy in 1948 and after the war studied
mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early
1950s, Akiva became critical of Zionism, joining the Israeli Communist Party in
1953. However, in 1962, he broke from the party and jointly founded the
anti-Zionist Israeli organization Matzpen. He has written several books
including “The Un-Jewish State:The
Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel,” “The Other Israel: The Radical Case
Against Zionism,” and the “Direct Democracy Manifesto.” You can read and download
his books on his website at akiorrbooks.org.
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