Anti-Zionism

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 project built on exclusion. What emerges is not only a rediscovered tradition of Jewish moral thought, but a startling reappraisal of Zionism itself. Moser`s work restores the full scale and depth of Jewish ethical imagination, affirming that Judaism is older and larger than any single political project. Lucid, unsparing, and deeply humane, Anti-Zionism cements Moser`s place as one of our foremost Jewish writers and presents a framework through which this history-and its meanings-will be understood for years to come.