#  Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov 

 



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### Israel: What Went Wrong?

#### by former Junior Fellow Omer Bartov (1989 - 92)

In this book, [Bartov](https://history.brown.edu/people/omer-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](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374618186/israel/)



 



 

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