Jonathan Rosen’s review in the Times, “A Missionary Impulse” of the book ‘The Crisis of Zionism
,’ by Peter Beinart, is a total hatchet job.
Rosen is the editorial director of Nextbook, which seems at first to give him some credentials to review this book, but he is also the author, most recently, of “The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature” which cancels his credentials for this review. He is a published expert in birding, and a memoir writer, not a scholar nor even a pundit versed in Zionism, nor in American Judaism.
We are not a big fan of Beinart’s views, often too liberal even for us. Oy but we do wince as his nemesis Rosen declares that Beinart is wrong because he is like a Mark Twain character, “Like the Widow Douglas trying to civilize Huck Finn before he lights out for the occupied territory, Beinart has a missionary impulse toward Israel. His faith resides in ‘liberal ideals,’ which he often makes synonymous with Judaism itself, or what Judaism ought to be.”
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