In the West, Jewish voices are embracing anti-Zionism. Palestinians must seize this moment

The publication of Benjamin Moser’s Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History comes at a significant political moment.

Alongside the growing anti-genocide movement in the West, and the British Green Party’s recent adoption of a motion supporting a single democratic state in historic Palestine, the book helps to bring a question once marginalised in mainstream western debate into sharper focus: is Zionism an inseparable expression of Jewish identity, or a political ideology that must itself be challenged?

Moser, an American Jewish writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, approaches this question by recovering a largely suppressed tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism.

Through portraits of 12 Jewish figures, including Hannah Arendt, Edwin Montagu, Felicia Langer and Avi Shlaim, he demonstrates that opposition to Zionism is neither new nor alien to Jewish intellectual and political history.