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April 19, 2023

The Latest Work of Academic Anti-Zionism Argues That Jews Are Wrong to Seek Security

In Daniel Boyarin’s view, for Jews to keep others safe is the ethical thing, whereas for Jews to keep themselves safe is the “racist” thing.

In his recent book The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto, Daniel Boyarin—a distinguished professor of ancient Judaism at the University of California, Berkeley—takes old arguments against Zionism and dresses them up in the trendiest of academic clothing. The Jews, he contends, should celebrate their religious and national heritage, but realize that they are a thoroughly diasporic people who should embrace “not the promise of security, but rather the highly contingent possibility of an ethical collective existence.” Cole Aronson writes in his review:

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