5 Lessons
Video Course
Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The History of Two Opposing Ideas
With Dr. Einat Wilf, Zoé Tara Zeigherman
A comprehensive look at the history of Zionism—political, social, and religious—and the schools of anti-Zionism that have opposed it.
Lesson 1 · Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The History of Two Opposing Ideas
Secularism: Soviet and Left Wing Anti-Zionism
In the final episode of this course, Dr. Wilf looks at the Soviet roots of modern-day left-wing anti-Zionism, and how it has taken traditional anti-Semitic tropes and applied them to Zionists instead of Jews, without in practice meaning anything different. She also outlines three distinct types of anti-Zionism, compares the threats of left-wing anti-Zionism and right-wing anti-Semitism, and examines the arguments and rhetoric of prominent anti-Zionists today.
