Queer Place-making & Jewish Anti-Zionism

This paper will map the terrain of queer Jewish place and space-making in the context of U.S. anti-Zionist movements. Both Jewishness and queerness have historically been invested in the production of counter spaces. While anti-Zionist movements in the U.S. are historically rooted in liberatory and solidarity-based lesbian feminist identity politics, solidarity alone is inadequate for explaining the abundant queerness and creativity of the Jewish anti-Zionist place-making occurring today. The vibrant queerness of Jewish place-making beyond Zionism attests to the power of spatial disorientation across the layers of social, political, and ecological notions of “home” in ways that are essential to re-imagining our relationships to “place.”