On absolute anti-Zionism

“You are either with the Nazis, or you’re against the Nazis, you are either with the Zionists, or you’re against the Zionists, that’s it.” (Kumar, 2026) There is no Jewish question, yet currents of the leftist milieu are obsessed with ‘the Jewish question’: the idea that the Jewish collective poses the ultimate harm to humanity. […]

‘The Zionist entity is burning down the UK’: on conspiratorial creep in academia

“The Zionist entity is burning down the UK to defend the genocide in the Gaza” (Press TV, 2024) I demonstrate in my book Outcast (Bassi, 2023) how a dominant body of academic left literature on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict pitches Zionism as the globalising crucible and exporter of colonialism, imperialism, social dispossession, injustice, repression, and racism everywhere. Zionism (including all […]