ABSTRACT
In this essay I will deconstruct revisionist Zionism, exploring my personal narrative of moving from the Zionism that I grew up with in the New York Jewish community of the 1960s and 1970s to the more inclusive views I hold now. I will then examine Hannah Arendt’s prophetic warnings from her 1945 article “Zionism Reconsidered” and compare them to Rosemary and Herman Ruether’s analysis in their 1989 book The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. In my analysis of my biography and these writers I discovered that liberal Zionism is actually a form of revisionist Zionism.
