Writings
His book, What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters, edited by philosopher and culture critic Slavoj Žižek, includes conversations and comments by French philosopher Alain Badiou, philosophy professor Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek, and was published by Columbia University Press in October 2011. The book spans the fields of theology and psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy.
Aloni's recently published book Gilgul Mechilot (Forgiveness, Or Rolling In the Underworld's Tunnels), a collection of stories and pensees, includes his politically charged essays Messianic Manifesto for Binationalism and Reflections on the Coming of the Messiah. Aloni coined the phrase “radical leftist Messianism” to describe his political ideology, which attempts to identify and analyze the theology of secularism, or the unconscious theological underpinnings of secularist and liberal discourses, specifically in Israel. In Messianic Manifesto for Binationalism, he calls for a radical re-reading of Zionism, stating that “Any attempt to resist the Law of the Father as violent Zionist extremism only strengthens him. We must cleanse Zionism of its nationalistic elements without relinquishing its Messianic fervor for liberty, freedom, and equality.”
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