Akiva Orr

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Akiva "Aki" Orr (* 1931 in Berlin as Karl Sebastian Sonnenberg ; † February 9, 2013 in Tnuvot) was an Israeli writer and political activist. He was a critic of Zionism and supported a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . Orr has been campaigning for direct democracy since 1968 .

Life

Orr was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His parents left Germany in 1934 after the National Socialists came to power and went to Palestine , which was then a British mandate. It was only here that he Hebrew his name to Akiva Orr.

In 1961 he published together with Moshe Machover the writing Shalom, Shalom ve'ein Shalom ("Peace, Peace and Yet No Peace"), in which he criticized the war against Egypt and the government under David Ben Gurion . In 1962 he left the Communist Party of Israel and founded the left-wing socialist organization Matzpen .

Publications

English

  • 1972: The Other Israel: the Radical Case against Zionism , ed. Arie Bober, with contributions by various Matzpen members ( Doubleday )
  • 1984: The Un-Jewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel (Ithaca Press)
  • 1994: Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises ( Pluto Press )
  • 2005: Politics without Politicians (self-published, available online)
  • 2007: Big Business, Big Government or Direct Democracy: Who Should Shape Society? (World Power Politics of the 20th Century and their Lesson) (self-published, available online)

Hebrew

  • 1961: Peace Peace & There is No Peace - Shalom, Shalom ve'ein Shalom (with Moshe Machover)
  • 2002: Alternative to a Psychotic State
  • 2003: From Protest to Revolution (Five talks to young activists)
  • 2005: Flashbacks (recollections of London)

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz Fiedler: Akiva Orr (1931-2013). Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b http://www.akivaorrbooks.org/
personal data
SURNAME Orr, Akiva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orr, Aki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2013
Place of death Tnuvot