In an open letter to the Jewish Book Council, a group of anti- and non-Zionist Jewish writers accused it of 'narrowing its vision to a Zionist approach to Jewish culture.' JBC's head, on the other hand, says its role 'is not – and never will be – to enforce consensus'
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In an open letter to the Jewish Book Council, a group of anti- and non-Zionist Jewish writers accused it of 'narrowing its vision to a Zionist approach to Jewish culture.' JBC's head, on the other hand, says its role 'is not – and never will be – to enforce consensus'
09:34 PM • April 21 2026 IDT
On April 9, a group of Jewish authors published an open letter to the Jewish Book Council, the latest escalation of a long-simmering – occasionally boiling – public discourse about the politics of Jewish identity vis-a-vis Israel, in a post-October 7 climate that has left Israel increasingly isolated in response to its military actions and raised the stakes of disagreements among Diaspora Jews over their vision of the Jewish state.
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