What if some of the most prominent people who opposed Zionism throughout history were Jews themselves? What if reading the founding texts of the Zionist movement is enough to shake the narrative it has been promoting for decades?
This is what the American author Benjamin Moser discovered in a journey that began with a review of his personal beliefs, and ended with the book "Anti-Zionism: The History of Judaism", which reopens cases, personalities and positions that have been erased or marginalized in mainstream memory.
From Theodore Herzl and the Balfour Declaration to the history of Arab Jews, and from the relationship between Zionism and colonialism to the charge of "anti-Semitism" used to silence critics, Moser presents a reading that eliminates many historical and political assumptions.
A book that shakes the image of Zionism for itself, and re-asks a fundamental question: Who has the right to tell history to the Jews, and whose voice is silenced?
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