The Untold History of Jewish Anti-Zionism

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biographer Benjamin Moser about his new book, “Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History.” Together, they explore why the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism has become so little known — and how Zionism came to be treated as an almost self-evident part of Jewish identity.

What role did Jewish and Christian Zionists play in that transformation? Why have Jewish critics of Zionism repeatedly been pushed to the margins? And what do today’s debates over antisemitism, Holocaust memory and Israel reveal about which historical comparisons and political questions are still considered permissible?

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 17th of October, 2026. We have translated it into German and are republishing it today to help build opinion on this issue in Germany and beyond.

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.

ABOUT BENJAMIN MOSER

Benjamin Moser is an American author, biographer, and translator whose work focuses on literature, intellectual history, and culture. He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Sontag: Her Life and Work and is also the author of the acclaimed Clarice Lispector biography Why This World and, most recently, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History.