Only a Jew
Israel is the screen onto which the Left projects its own anxieties.
Benjamin Balint, a writer living in Jerusalem, is the author of Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right (PublicAffairs) and Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy (W.W. Norton).
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