On and off campus the phrase "settler colonialism" is increasingly popular with pro-Palestinian advocates who seek to criticize the state of Israel.
Wall Street Journal editor and national contributor Adam Kirsch explored his new book
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, the morally dubious ideology behind the phrase, and why it actually perpetuates violence and injustice.
Adam Kirsch is a poet, literary critic and editor at the
Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section whose writing appears regularly in the
New Yorker, the
New York Review of Books and other publications. He is the author of four collections of poems, three collections of essays, and several books on Jewish literature and history. His new book,
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence and Justice, written in the aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, has been described as "a beautifully argued critique" that is "calm and careful, but...also smart, sustained, and fierce" (Michael Walzer,
Jewish Review of Books).
