Undoing Zionism

We begin July 30th. Join us for a series that will be life and spirit-changing. 

Gather in Jewish community as we move forward in this unprecedented moment, filled with grief, fear, pain, and rage. Together, we’ll continue the learning and processing needed to move our community beyond an allegiance to Zionism, and toward a future that centers safety, justice, and interconnectedness for Palestinians and Jews alike.

Undoing Zionism is an 8-session series that will build your consciousness, skills, confidence, and clarity to root yourself into proud Jewish politics beyond Zionism that centers the safety, liberation, and wellness for Palestinians and Jews alike. This is an affinity space for Jews of all backgrounds and orientations–if you’re Jewish, you’re Jewish enough for this experience.

Our space will mix community building, grieving, reimagining, learning, scheming, and organizing for the next moves.

 

Our series will dive into various topics, from spiritual resistance and Christian Zionism to white supremacy and Palestinian/Jewish coalition building for change. We’ll be led by guest speakers of all backgrounds throughout the course (featured below), and spend the rest of the sessions building community while doing the deeper grief work and healing-informed processing together. Participants will create ongoing community through both a WhatsApp group and through optional small group chavrutahs–meeting on off-weeks to process and grow together.

This course is hosted by Mira Stern, an educator and organizer rooted in collective liberation for Palestinians and Jews. Mira is a proud queer Ashkenazi Jewish mama, born and raised in Turtle Island/the U.S., and actively involved in anti-racist and anti-Zionist education/organizing.

A brilliant, powerful, diverse range of guest educators will be contributing to an amazing education:

This course is a good fit for you if you:

 
 

  • You feel called to step into the courage necessary to face the harm of this moment, knowing your work and spirit is needed for collective liberation

  • You want to build community with other Jewish people who are anti-zionist or are on your anti-zionist journey (in what can be very isolating work)

  • You have an awareness of White Supremacy and colonialism that you want to sharpen and apply to Palestinian liberation 

  • You want to gain the content, knowledge, and grounding to educate and organize your family and Jewish community toward a free Palestine and safer world for Jews

  • You want to learn more about the histories & impacts of Zionism in its current manifestation as the state of Israel

  • You want to deepen into Jewishness beyond the concept of Zionism

  • You’re ready to grow and be challenged

 

  • Classes run from 4-6pm PST and begin on July 30th, running every other week for 8 sessions, ending November 5th. Sign up on the waitlist here for our winter cohort, which will be from 10am-12pm PST, to create space for folks in other time zones.

    Full List of Dates (topics subject to change):

    Opening and Grounding with Mira Stern- July 30

    Solidarity and a Spiritual Activism with Hadar Cohen- August 13

    Palestinian Resistance Across the Diaspora with Nadya Tannous- August 27

    Israeli Activism with Noam Shuster-Eliassi- September 10

    Christian Zionism with jonah aline daniel - September 24

    Protection Magic & Safety Beyond Zionism with Dori Midnight - October 8

    Freedom Together: Solidarity and Unity with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence- October 22

    Building Beyond: Closing Ritual for Collective Liberation with Mira Stern - November 5

  • We’re committed to making this space as welcoming, liberating and accessible for all people as possible.

    Our zoom sessions will be recorded for future playback, videos will be captioned, and closed captioning will be available.

    Amongst other interactive goodies, our sessions will always include breaks, small group discussions, personal reflection time, and whole-group time, to vary up the learning modalities.

    If you need live ASL interpretation for the course, we can make that happen as well. Please email me or note that in your registration.

    A special thank you to jonah aline daniel for support in conceptualizing this accessibility section.

  • Facilitators might offer home learning before the sessions that we facilitate--a light load, like a short article or video/podcast. You’re not getting graded, don’t worry :)

  • The cost of the course includes paying host & guest teachers for facilitating, fundraising for relief aid in Gaza and the West Bank, donating to cultural work across the Palestinian diaspora, and paying for the cost of setting the course up. Depending on how many folks enroll, the goal of this cohort is to give 52% of proceeds to Palestinian folks and organizations.

    Factoring in all of the above, the true cost of the class is $700 per participant. As we’re committed to making things as accessible as possible, we’re offering four payment tiers that folks can pay across multiple payment plans.

    Sliding scale options are as follows:

    $360

    $594

    $720

    $990

    Register here

Once you register, you will receive calendar invites, the Zoom link, and access to a platform holding course pre-work and future class recordings. 

We’re so excited to venture into this heavy and freeing work together. Our families, communities, and siblings worldwide need our investment and dedication to liberation for all <3

Welcome. We’re waiting for you!

Context

As noted above, I am a white Ashkenazi Jew who is coordinating and holding this space. My deepest desire is to de-center whiteness in all the ways possible, while knowing that it will certainly show up in both my facilitation and in our group dynamics. This will certainly be engaged as a group and, as noted above, will center guests who are folks of color who can bring content and context that I cannot present.

I also want to offer the opportunity for break-out affinity groups to emerge as we run our course: both for Jews of color in the cohort, and for Israeli folks in the cohort (perhaps you join both if you share both of those identities!). The goal is to create rootedness and solidarity across our Jewishness, and I’m open to suggestions and critiques of how to create the most supportive environment for Jews of color who sign up.

Join The Winter 2024 Waitlist