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Anti-Zionism
- Author
- Benjamin Moser
- Narrator
- Benjamin Moser
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 22 September 2026
- Run Time
- 14 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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‘One of the most mind-altering books I've ever read’ BRIAN ENO
‘Revelatory’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
‘An important work’ AFUA HIRSCH
‘Remarkable’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
‘A book of extraordinary moral clarity’ NATHAN THRALL
A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.
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 – across Europe, North American, Africa, 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, rigorous and deeply humane, Anti-Zionism cements Moser’s place as one of our foremost Jewish thinkers and presents a framework through which this history – and its meanings – will be understood for years to come.
‘An urgent rebuke to the dangerous rewriting of history’ AFUA HIRSCH, author of Decolonising My Body
‘A lovingly-written historical primer for the free-thinkers of the West today’ ISABELLA HAMMAD, author of Enter Ghost
‘Anti-Zionism restores our faith in what Iris Murdoch defined as the Sovereignty of Good’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism
‘What I learned in these pages has profoundly changed my understanding of history – the world's, my people's, my family's, and my own’ AYELET WALDMAN, author of A Perfect Hand
‘An urgently necessary refutation … I hope it will be widely read’ PETER SINGER, author of The Life You Can Save
Critics Review
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‘One of the most mind-altering books I’ve ever read … A work of moral courage, empathy and honesty’ Brian Eno
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‘The definition of an important work – deeply researched, beautifully written, and most of all, an urgent rebuke to the dangerous rewriting of history’ Afua Hirsch, author of Decolonising My Body
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‘Brave and passionate … humane … An important and revelatory contribution to the growing debate on the ethics of Zionism, as angry and urgent as it is heartfelt and moving’ William Dalrymple, author of The Golden Road
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‘Remarkable … More than any other recent book, Anti-Zionism restores our faith in what Iris Murdoch defined as the Sovereignty of Good’ Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism
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‘Finally we have a way to understand the best parts of Jewish history. This book is beautifully crafted, brilliantly researched and seductively readable’ Nan Goldin
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‘Meticulous research, wit, and a searching moral candour … A lovingly-written historical primer for the free-thinkers of the West today’ Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost
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‘Moser has written such an expansive, moving text. Sensitive, rigorous, and deeply personal’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster
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‘A rare book that induces a simultaneous expansion of the mind and soul’ Pankaj Mishra, author of The World After Gaza
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‘A book of extraordinary moral clarity’ Nathan Thrall, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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‘At a time when some Zionists seek to restrict freedom of speech by defining anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and some anti-zionists target Jews as if they were all Zionists, Moser's book provides an urgently necessary refutation of such conflations. I hope it will be widely read’ Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save
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‘A work that is not only necessary, but riveting … What I learned in these pages has profoundly changed my understanding of history – the world's, my people's, my family's, and my own’ Ayelet Waldman, author of A Perfect Hand
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Details
- Author
- Benjamin Moser
- Narrator
- Benjamin Moser
- Duration
- 14 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9780008722784
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Religious and theocratic ideologies and movements, Colonialism and imperialism, Human rights, civil rights
Synopsis
‘One of the most mind-altering books I've ever read’ BRIAN ENO ‘Revelatory’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE ‘An important work’ AFUA HIRSCH ‘Remarkable’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS ‘A book of extraordinary moral clarity’ NATHAN THRALL A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser. 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 – across Europe, North American, Africa, 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, rigorous and deeply humane, Anti-Zionism cements Moser’s place as one of our foremost Jewish thinkers and presents a framework through which this history – and its meanings – will be understood for years to come. ‘An urgent rebuke to the dangerous rewriting of history’ AFUA HIRSCH, author of Decolonising My Body ‘A lovingly-written historical primer for the free-thinkers of the West today’ ISABELLA HAMMAD, author of Enter Ghost ‘Anti-Zionism restores our faith in what Iris Murdoch defined as the Sovereignty of Good’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism ‘What I learned in these pages has profoundly changed my understanding of history – the world's, my people's, my family's, and my own’ AYELET WALDMAN, author of A Perfect Hand ‘An urgently necessary refutation … I hope it will be widely read’ PETER SINGER, author of The Life You Can Save
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