Grant Farred is author, most recently, of The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education and Grievance: In Fragments.
Anti-Zionist
by Grant Farred
5.5 x 8.5, 218 pgs., $25
ISBN 978-1-962365-10-9
"Farred brings a much-needed philosophical profundity to the topic of Zionism. His central argument—that Israel’s crimes have surpassed the inhumanity of apartheid—is delivered with persuasive, and poetic, urgency."
—Andrew Ross, author of Stone Men:
The Palestinians Who Built Israel
A critique of the US university, a refusal to let stand an equivalence between Zionism and apartheid, a call for ethical solidarity, Anti-Zionist stands against the repressive mechanisms of the moment by explicating why the Palestinian cause should be a universal project. Wide-ranging in its reflections, Anti-Zionist draws on a range of thinkers, from Edward Said to Judith Butler, from Hannah Arendt to Raja Shehadeh and Jacques Derrida, takes issue with a thinker such as Emmanuel Levinas, invokes the poetry of WB Yeats, turns in moments to personal reflection, and offers the concept ethical solidarity as a way of being in relation to the other that extends well beyond the current conflict in Gaza. Unstinting in its criticism of Zionism, Anti-Zionist nonetheless cautions against the embrace of Hamas.