Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations.Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists and politicians - from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America - Moser traces a lineage of Jewish dissenters who confronted Zionism’s moral and political stakes - often at devastating personal cost, including censorship, exile and death. Their lives form a sweeping, global narrative that dismantles a powerful myth: that anti-Zionism is synonymous with antisemitism.Spanning continents and centuries, these voices - people from the right and the left, Reform and Orthodox, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, men and women, gay and straight - differ sharply in belief and background, yet converge on a shared warning about the consequences of a nationalist proj