Israel: What Went Wrong?, 9781911717706
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From liberation dream to alleged genocide: what went wrong, Israel?
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Israel: What Went Wrong?

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    256 pages

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    27 April 2026

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Summary

Professor Omer Bartov, a leading genocide scholar, was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He became an expert on the German army and the Holocaust before turning his attention to his native country.

In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Bartov explores the transformation of Zionism from a movement of Jewish emancipation and liberation into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion, and violent domination of…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781911717706
ISBN-10:1911717707
Author:Omer Bartov
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Fern Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:27 April 2026
Weight:600g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm x 40mm
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The descent of Israel, once a refuge for the Holocaust’s surviving victims, into genocidal madness has revealed how little we know about the “slaughter-bench” of modern history. In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Omer Bartov explores the most horrifying and vexing calamity of our time with a rare combination of painful personal intimacy and impeccable scholarship. Anyone disturbed and frightened by our current moral and intellectual morass should read it – Pankaj Mishra

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