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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Dream and Reality 19 Downward Spiral 25 The Birth of Israel and the Palestinian Catastrophe 31 Remembering Homeland Zionism for the Future 35 Rabbis of Conscience Speaking Passover Truth to Power 42 Chapter 2. Are the True Colors of the Jews Empire Blue? 49 Einstein’s Theory of Zionist Relativity 51 When Salvation Knocks on Your Collective Door 55 A Covenantal God on the Empire Divide 64 When Conscience and Destiny Collide 72 Imagine There’s No Empire 75 Chapter 3. Empire Boomerang 81 Jews Writing God’s Part in America the Chosen 89 The People (and Their God) Who Dwell Alone 93 Surrounded by Others 98 Chapter 4. The Search for Jewish Identity 105 Exile, Israel’s Safe Haven 111 The Heartbeat of the Prophetic 114 Ethnic Cleansing and Jewish Identity 120 The Commanding Voice of Palestine 126 Not in Our Name 132 Colonialism within Jewish Identity 135 Chapter 5. Thinking Israel’s (and Palestine’s) Anniversary 141 The State of Israel and the Nakba: Two Views 142 Zochrot: Jews Remembering the Nakba with Compassion 148 Jeff Halper: Rethinking Israeli Apartheid 156 Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israel’s War Crimes, Nonviolent Resistance 163 Joseph Massad: Uprooting the Palestinian Judenräte 167 Chapter 6. Tunnel Vision 185 Elie Wiesel: Speaking Truth to Darkness 188 High-Speed Rail and the Messianic 195 Instrumentalizing Torah-True Judaism 201 A New Orthodoxy 208 Chapter 7. Unraveling God 213 When Israel and God Are Out of Sync 218 After the Holocaust Empire Collapse 224 Still/Former Jewish/Israelis 232 The No-Brainer Prophets Gathering Light 237 Chapter 8. Martyrological Imperialism 249 The Magnes Museum—(Mostly) Without Magnes 254 The Bloodlands Cycle 264 A Shared Solitude 273 Chapter 9. One State—One Future? 285 Teaching the (Bloodlands-Revised) Holocaust 286 Re-connecting Our Jewish Atheists and Rebels 294 Arguing Palestinian Statehood at the United Nations 300 Debating One State 308 Is Criticism of Israel Hate? 314 Chapter 10. The Jewish (Prophetic) Prison 321 A Prophetic Exorcism 322 Performing the Decolonized Prophetic 332 The Conscience of Humanity 340 Prophetic Shock Doctrine 347 Epilogue 361 Index of Names and Subjects 371 ...

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