The forgotten history of American Jewish dissent against Zionism

“Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent 1948-1978,” Geoffrey Levin, Yale University Press, 2023 What is happening to the Zionist consensus? If you read much of the Jewish media, especially post-October 7, it appears to be alive and well, with most Jews understandably and passionately coalescing around the trauma induced by the Hamas-led attack. But something else seems to be afoot, especially in the shadow of Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, which has taken over 28,000 lives and is showing no signs of letting up. Among Israeli Jews, the feasibility of the war’s objectives are appearing increasingly uncertain, and an internal debate is percolating as to what the “day after” will look like. In the United States, the influence of progressive Jewish groups protesting the war and demanding a ceasefire has grown exponentially since the war began. These internal struggles around Israel’s future long pre-date October 7, and run much deeper than strategic questions about a sing

“Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent 1948-1978,” Geoffrey Levin, Yale University Press, 2023 What is happening to the Zionist consensus? If you read much of the Jewish media, especially post-October 7, it appears to be alive and well, with most Jews understandably and passionately coalescing around the trauma induced by the Hamas-led attack. But something else seems to be afoot, especially in the shadow of Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, which has taken over 28,000 lives and is showing no signs of letting up. Among Israeli Jews, the feasibility of the war’s objectives are