Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov

Israel: What Went Wrong?

by former Junior Fellow Omer Bartov (1989 - 92)

In this book, Bartov, currently the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, 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 Palestinians. He traces the process whereby Israel – whose establishment in 1948 received international support in the aftermath of the Holocaust – now faces accusations of war crimes and genocide. 

Published on April 21, 2026 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux