Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel - Softcover

Farber, Seth

9781567513264: Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567513263 ISBN 13: 9781567513264

Publisher: Common Courage Press, 2005

“A valuable contribution to the contentious dialogue on an important issue. One cannot but feel great sadness and anger about what has become of the state of Israel after reading these important interviews.”—Anthony Gronowicz, author of Race and Class Politics in New York City Before the Civil War

Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers consists of conversations with leading intellectuals and activists who believe it is their obligation to protest Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Participants include Noam Chomsky; Joel Kovel; Norman Finkelstein, author; Ora Wise, activist in Jews Against the Occupation; Rabbi David Weiss; Adam Shapiro and Phyllis Bennis.

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From the Author:

I quote the words about this book by Rev Daniel Berrigan, Catholic priest, Jesuit and long time anti-war activist: "Your book is a ray of piercing truth, amid the darkness that lays claim to our world, from Tel Aviv to Washington, For me, indebted as I am to the prophets from Isaiah to Jesus, you have illumined the human vocation (whether of unbeliever. Jewish. Muslim, Christian); to labor on behalf of justice and peace, to stand with the victimised; 'the widow and orphan and stranger at the gate', to oppose war and its vile tactics—occupation, bombing, sanctions, slaughter of innocents...

The book is simply indispensable, given the welter of outright lies, slants, omissions that sum up our 'unmediating media' regarding the ongoing tragedy of the Palestinian people. To you and the noble minority who people this book, thanks are due from those who seek the truth, ever endangered and dishonored by the mandarins of untruth."

From the Back Cover:

I'm grateful to have lived long enough to cherish such, truth telling, unacceptable and yet crucial as it undoubtedly is, both. (I turn 84 this year). It has been a long uphill climb since '72, when I spoke for the Palestinians—and paid up. Admirable ecumenism! The denunciations could be heard on the moon; right, left, center, Jewish, Christian. I was compared to Rev. Charles Coughlin, a clerical Jew baiter of the '30's! Someone estimated that 100 articles appeared after my speech; 90% at the least, were hostile (One of the very few who stood with me was Sylvia Heschel, widow of Abraham of blessed memory, my friend and co-founder of Clergy and Laity Against the War in Vietnam).

Since that time, I've been 'practicing diaspora’ as a way of life. Permit me to thank you with all my heart for your book. It is a ray of piercing truth, amid the darkness that lays claim to our world, from Tel Aviv to Washington, For me, indebted as I am to the prophets from Isaiah to Jesus, you have illumined the human vocation (whether of unbeliever. Jewish. Muslim, Christian); to labor on behalf of justice and peace, to stand with the victimised; 'the widow and orphan and stranger at the gate', to oppose war and its vile tactics—occupation, bombing, sanctions, slaughter of innocents - war, the creator of widows and orphans, of generational hatreds, of a ruined creation - untended wounds on the planet and the body of the human family. The book is simply indispensable, given the welter of outright lies, slants, omissions that sum up our ‘unmediating media' regarding the ongoing tragedy of the Palestinian people. To you and the noble minority who people this book, thanks are due from those who seek the truth, ever endangered and dishonored by the mandarins of untruth. —Daniel Berrigan, S.J.

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