What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters

Foreword, by Judith ButlerEditor's Introduction, by Slavoj ZizekAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Visit of the Three Magi in the Holy LandSlavoj Zizek in Ramallah: Back to the Trauma Zone, by Merav YudilovitchAlain Badiou in Haifa: Their Entire Particular WorldJudith Butler in Sheikh-Jarrah: "This place which is called Israel"1 Theology: "Specters of Binationalism"A Manifesto for the Jewish-Palestinian Arab-Hebrew StateWhy We Support Boycott, Divestment, and SanctionsThe Star of Redemption with a Split ?2 BodySamson the Non-EuropeanPnay El (Face of God): The Place of Radical EncounterJocasta's Dream: The Birth of Love from the Slaughter of the Innocent3 Place: Writing from Occupied TerritoriesThe Specters of a Borrowed VillageFor Palestine Is Missing from PalestineThe Fish Who Became a ShahidJenin and HomeopathyA Murder Is a Murder Is a Murder: Between Tel Aviv and Bil'in4 Politics: Plea to Jewish ArtistsTrust Your Dreams: To Dorit RabinianThus Spoke the Left: An Attack on the Manifesto of the National LeftThe Betrayal of the Peace Camp: To Achinoam NiniFrom Now On Say I Am a Palestinian Jew: To David GrossmanAnd Who Shall I Say Is Calling? A Plea to Leonard CohenCome Out of Your Political Closets: To Israeli FilmmakersSeinfeld, This Time It's Not Funny!Elementary, My Dear Schnabel: Plea to Julian SchnabelWhat Do You Mean When You Say "Left"? An Answer to Professor Nissim Calderon5, by Art: Visual MidrashAn Angel Under Siege: To Hassan HouraniLocal Angel: To Walter BenjaminHoly Language, Holy Place: To Franz RosenzweigForgiveness: To Jacques DerridaAn Angel I Borrowed: To Mahmoud DarwishStabat Mater: To My Father6, by Language: Conversations and CommentsThe Jew Is Within You, But You, You Are in the Jew, by Slavoj ZizekWhat Does a Jew Want? On the Film Local Angel, by Slavoj Zizek"I will tremble the underground": On the Film ForgivenessAngel for a New Place: On the Film Local Angel, by Alain BadiouThe Four Dimensions of Art: On the Film Forgiveness, by Alain

Udi Aloni is an Israeli/American writer and filmmaker whose work explores the discourse between art, theory, and action. His art projects have been presented in leading museums and galleries, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his films Kashmir: Journey to Freedom (2009), Forgiveness (2006), and Local Angel (2003) have been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, among other prominent venues. This book was published shortly after the murder of his dear friend, Juliano Mer Khamis, director of The Freedom Theater in Jenin Refugee Camp, where Aloni helped him run the Cinema Department.

A provocative and beautiful portfolio of reflections on Israel-Palestine, written by an Israeli artist/intellectual of the first order. -- Juilia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine This is an extremely inspiring and politically important volume. It will interest students and scholars in the fields of literary studies, religious studies, philosophy, political theory, and cultural studies, as well as the general educated public. The psychoanalytically informed and politically engaged readings of myths and stories from the Bible are especially convincing and truly innovative. -- Katrin Pahl, Johns Hopkins University Udi Aloni has written a remarkable series of love letters to what his country could be, challenging his fellow Jews to escape from all of our ghettos, whether physical or psychological. Aloni's political courage is contagious and reading him is a libratory experience. -- Naomi Klein, social activist and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Aloni's secular theology is definitely one of the most fascinating innovations of our time. So, if you want to dwell in your blessed secular ignorance, then do not read this book--at your own risk! -- Slavoj i ek Udi Aloni provides us with a measure of the distance between our capacity for understanding and the terrors we choose instead. His art is trembling the underground, indeed. Boundless admiration. -- Tony Kushner