"Zionism" is hurled as a slur. It’s defended passionately. Antisemites weaponise it. Jewish institutions invoke it.

Yet this many sided, diverse movement was built on ideas and texts, wrestled over and cultivated by a wide range thinkers — with powerful ideas that deserve to be reexamined, and ultimately serve as the foundation for new and contemporary Zionist thought.

This isn't a history course, nor an exhaustive class in theory. Instead, we explore key texts that directly address, evoke, or planted the seeds of Zionist thought.

These texts remain alive and capable of inspiring and challenging both Jewish and non-Jewish readers today.

We take a critical close reading text-based approach, that allows both for a deeper understanding of the texts discussed and for the possibility to break out of existing dogmas and ideologies.