As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders.

The sick irony is that Zionism was supposed to make Jews safe. But building up a Jewish Sparta, as Arendt once called it, at the crossroads of Empire did the opposite. Today the Israeli war machine, fueled by siege mentality, feeds on the antisemitism birthed out of its entrails.

Attacks on Jewish diaspora communities are morally inexcusable. They’re also bound to occur when communal representatives and Western leaders proclaim our collective allegiance to a pariah state pursuing some of the greatest atrocities of a still-young century.

The other bad dialectic, by the way, is between ultra-Left apologists who hold ‘the Jews’ wholly guilty for these attacks, and Zionist apologists who proclaim absolute innocence. Both shades of moralism are shoddy substitutes for political analysis.