Status Updates From Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History

Loving so far. Got a copy pre-release (thanks to half my family working in a bookshop) and I can highly recommend. Is more on the academic side so might not be for everyone, but as someone whose degree was largely based on Jewish history I’m thoroughly enjoying

reviewing for Library Journal because I just cannot give myself a break.

Only when one understands the extent of Zionist collaboration with Nazism can one understand the relentlessness of the campaign against Arendt.

"By means of Auschwitz-which has become over the years Israel's main reference in its relations with a world defined repeatedly as anti-Semitic and forever hostile-Israel rendered itself immune to criti-cism, and impervious to a rational dialogue with the world around," wrote the Israeli historian Idith Zertal.

“If Jews could live safely in other countries, that undermined the central contention of Zionism: that Jews could be safe only in a Jewish state. In 1938, the Zionists therefore blocked a plan to bring twenty thousand Jewish children to the United States.”

“The belief that peace was Zionism's goal revealed a fundamental error, consuming the entire careers of diplomats as well as of historians. It was logical to believe that Israel wanted peace, but its actions, consistent with those of other settler colonies, revealed that its negotiations were a sham, aimed at credulous outsiders.”

“The hunger for more and more Palestinian land drove Israel to expand and expand, pouring salt in the already-gaping wound of indigenous dispossession, empowering the most extreme elements in the settler-colonial society, fueling Arab enmity, and guaranteeing itself a condition of permanent warfare.”