Isaac Chotiner reviewing Benjamin Moser’s book Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History in The New Yorker: ‘Moser has an unfortunate tendency to misrepresent the authorities he enlists.’ And: ‘After recounting that he grew up thinking that Zionism was a “unanimity,” he asks, “How would my life have been changed if I had known that it was not?” The question, though it might be better addressed to a therapist than to a reader, is somehow fitting in a book that ends by quoting the author’s own text messages.’

As well: ‘Palestinian suffering deserves to be understood on its own terms, without being subsumed into a narrative of Jewish psychodrama. Many American Jews, especially younger ones, simply do not want their government aiding and arming a country that behaves like an outlaw nation—the one we live in is enough, thank you.’

Indeed, the Palestinians don’t need Jewish psychodrama. They suffer enough already.

( a sf 2237)