Geoffrey Levin's Our Palestine Question and CDT member Marjorie Feld's The Threshold of Dissent reveal the long history of debates over Zionism and Israel within the American Jewish community. Levin records the voices of American Jews who called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinians from even before Israel's founding. Feld examines how and why mainstream Jewish leaders marginalized anti- and non-Zionists from the 1880's through the 1980's. Feld and Levin will discuss the implications and costs of limiting the Jewish communal agenda with an eye toward today's Jewish protests over the devastation in Gaza.

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Marjorie N. Feld is a Professor of History at Babson College in Massachusetts, where she teaches courses on U.S. social, gender, and labor history, food justice and sustainability. She is the author of Lillian Wald: A Biography, which won the Saul Viener Book Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society, and The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism.

Geoffrey Levin is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. His first book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978, has been discussed widely, including in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz, +972 Magazine, and The London Review of Books.