Anton Marks, at The Blogs

Oct 7, 2024, 12:12 AM

Bar the years each of my parents passed, this has been the hardest year of my life, by far. It's hard to put into words what it has been like, maybe because it's been a persistent feeling, rather than a...

May 10, 2024, 10:18 AM

Being Israeli, Jewish and Left-wing post-7/10

I blinked and it seems that I am now a citizen of a pariah state à la North Korea, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Syria, Myanmar, Kosovo, etc. etc. It’s not what I planned, and I’m pretty sure that my values don’t...

Jul 30, 2021, 4:13 PM

The Jewish People’s Baseball Team

I have to be honest, there can’t be many articles written about baseball that have been penned by someone less of a fan of the sport than me. I’ve even been to a handful of Major League Baseball games and...

Jun 11, 2021, 4:53 PM

The Palestinian Flag – Fear, trauma & the end of the Zionist dream

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." -- John Lennon I only asked what the big deal is with the Palestinian flag and why it winds up so many Jewish Israelis. And I received a variety...

Mar 3, 2021, 11:54 AM

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Led by a woman is reason enough

Why is Labor's Merav Michaeli the only female heading a party? Here are some milestones along the rocky road to women taking hold of their right to be elected

Jan 30, 2020, 1:15 PM

Outdated paradigms and the Jordan Valley

I believe in a two-state solution. It seems so obvious to me. It is something that is as clear to me today as it was when I first began to grapple with the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict back...

Jun 17, 2019, 7:11 PM

To vote or not to vote, that is the question

The voting booths of Nazareth Illit will be opened tomorrow, not for for the next round of local elections, or for the repeat Knesset elections which will take place in September. We're being asked to choose a slip which...

Feb 3, 2019, 1:50 PM

Why I am building a shared community of Jews & Arabs in Nazareth Illit

A letter to my Palestinian Arab Israeli partners in Nazareth Illit: I too grew up in a country where the symbol on the national flag was from a religion other than mine. I too grew up in a country where I...

Nov 8, 2018, 11:19 AM

The transformation of a place I never knew

This summer, my two and a half year sojourn in the USA came to an end and I returned home to Israel. Upon arriving in the US at the beginning of 2016, I encountered a country that was on...

Dec 31, 2017, 11:39 PM

Why am I told that I need to choose my progressive values over my Zionism? Zionism is a progressive ideology in and of itself.

In the 1800s, the great Moses Hess, a French Jew, felt like an outcast; he said that he felt like a Socialist amongst Zionists and a Zionist amongst Socialists. In 1900, Dov Ber Borochov, a Ukranian Jew, was expelled from...

About Me

Anton Marks is a British-born Israeli and a founder member of the largest urban kibbutz in Israel. He has been an informal educator for the last 25 years, and his passion for Zionist education, Tikkun Olam, peace activism, Jewish history, identity and culture are a recipe for engaging and challenging articles.