Confronting Zionism

Drawing on global anti-colonial movements, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds demonstrate that justice in Palestine cannot be realized without confronting the problem of Zionism

For over one hundred years, Palestinians have struggled for liberation in their homeland. Confronting Zionism takes direct analytical aim at the ideology and institutional structures animating Israel’s brutal rule over Palestinian lives.


With cutting precision and comprehensive evidence, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds argue that Zionism as an ideology is inherently settler colonial, racially supremacist, and ultimately genocidal. Tracing the history of the establishment of Israel, the development of its apartheid institutions, and the damning failure of the Oslo Peace Process, Confronting Zionism provides the concept and tools for understanding the horrors unfolding in Palestine today.


As legal scholars, Erakat and Reynolds also provide a clear-eyed assessment of the role of international law, in a world where its usefulness is increasingly in question. At this crucial historical juncture, Confronting Zionism uplifts the Palestinian intellectual tradition to argue that decolonization predicated on restitution, reparation, and the return of refugees remains the only just way forward.