# Did Zionism Go Wrong or Was it Always Wrong?

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Published: 2026-05-12T16:16:12+00:00
Episode link: https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/did-zionism-go-wrong-or-was-it-always
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## Resource

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Professor Omer Bartov, is the author of the newly released, Israel: What Went Wrong . Haaretz Columnist Gideon Levy, in a recent column , criticized an interview about the book that Bartov conducted with Haaretz . I invited both of them to join me in a discussion. Topics include… The difficulty for some Jews of declaring oneself anti-Zionist Did Zionism go awry or was it always meant to be what it has become? What might a more moral Israel have looked like at its inception? The morality and necessity of BDS The loneliness of the anti-Zionist Israeli

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