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The ideological underpinnings of this assault on progressive Jewish organizations were not formed overnight. They are the product of the “new antisemitism thesis,” which rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Conservatives and Christians, it argued, have finally embraced American Jews and, more important, the Jewish state of Israel. Jews’ new... See more

What ultimately matters is not an abstract notion of Zionism as a totalizing spiritual contaminant upon the Jewish people, but the ways in which American Jews, alongside all other Americans , hold multiple kinds of material relationships to Israel. To escape Zionist realism means prioritizing a material understanding of both American complicity... See more

Robert Gessner and Alexander Bittelman also referred to Zionism as “fascism” and “reactionary and undemocratic.” Jewish progressives denounced Zionism not only in solidarity with Palestinians but in their democratic and working-class self-interest.