Israel: What Went Wrong?

A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country’s intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.

Omer Bartov was born in a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the Holocaust before turning his attention to his native country. In a series of widely read essays, he has argued rigorously and passionately against Israel’s war in Gaza and the steady ...