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  title info:
    title: Israel
    sub title: what went wrong?
  title info:
    title: What went wrong?
  name:
    name part: Bartov, Omer
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 243 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Omer Bartov was born in a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the Holocaust before turning his attention to his native country. In a series of widely read essays, he has argued rigorously and passionately against Israel's war in Gaza and the steady erosion of its democratic norms. His early warning that Israel might be at risk of conducting genocide in Gaza and his later judgment that a genocide was under way became topics of international debate. In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Bartov sketches the transformation of Zionism from a movement that sought to emancipate European Jewry from oppression into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism. How is it possible, he asks, that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, which brought a Jewish national home widespread approval, stands credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes? How do we come to terms with the fact that Israel's war of destruction in Gaza was conducted with the support, laced with denial and indifference, of so many of its Jewish citizens? Drawing from several decades of thinking and writing, Bartov explores the present crisis and the urgent questions it has raised. He tracks the origins of Zionism, the intertwining of Israel's independence with Palestinian displacement, the politics of the Holocaust and antisemitism, and a number of new ideas for how Jews and Arabs alike can achieve peace and security. Then, in an essay titled "The Missing Constitution," he discusses Israel's failure to draft a binding national compact, and the escalating consequences of this lost opportunity. The result is a searing critique that assesses the meaning of Zionism and the future of Israel with lucidity and depth" --
  table of contents: Introduction : From liberation to oppression -- Israel's Forever War -- Antisemitism and Zionism -- The "never again" syndrome -- On the slaughter of children -- The missing Constitution -- Coda : The abyss and the promise.
  target audience: adult
  note: Omer Bartov.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-228) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-is---
  subject:
    topic: Zionism
    geographic: Israel
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
    geographic: Israel
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Israel
  subject:
    topic: Israel-Hamas War, 2023-
  subject:
    topic: October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023
  subject:
    topic: Genocide
  subject:
    geographic: Israel
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Antisémitisme
  subject:
    topic: Structure sociale
    geographic: Israël
  subject:
    topic: Génocide
  subject:
    geographic: Israël
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: antisemitism
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State
  classification: DS149 .B335125 2026
  classification: 320.54095694
  identifier: 9780374618186
  identifier: 0374618186
  identifier: 2025044935
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260124
    record change date: 20260629022526.6
    record identifier: in00005786108
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng