My paper will consider the work of Israeli writers who position themselves as resistant to contemporary forms of Zionism, with reference to some or all of the following: Orly Castel-Bloom, Shimon Ballas and Oz Shelach. My focus on these writers responds to an area of ‘resistance’ within postcolonial studies: Israeli cultural production has a decidedly marginal place in the field, despite the routine invocation of Israel/Palestine as an example of contemporary colonialism. By contrast, much post-1980 (and arguably, pre-2000) Israeli writing that is critical of Israeli nationalism or the Israeli state is classified in Israel as ‘post-Zionist’, a term inspired by metropolitan postcolonial theory. In reading these texts as ‘resistance literature’, however, I’m less interested in identifying them as part of a wider trend in Israeli writing than in the particular political and literary interventions made by each of these writers, and in their significance for ideas of resistance literature and the role of the intellectual more generally.